Racial Differences in Health Care Transitions and Hospice Use at the End of Life.

Although the fragmentation of end-of-life care has been well documented, previous research has not examined racial and ethnic differences in transitions in care and hospice use at the end of life. Retrospective cohort study among 649,477 Medicare beneficiaries who died between July 2011 and December 2011. Sankey diagrams and heatmaps to visualize the health care transitions across race/ethnic groups.