2 results match your criteria: "Weill Cornell Medicine Center for Research on End-of-Life Care[Affiliation]"
Background: Acute hospitalization is a frequent reason for live discharge from hospice. Although risk factors for live discharge among hospice patients have been well documented, prior research has not examined the role of neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics, or how these characteristics relate to racial/ethnic disparities in hospice outcomes.
Objective: To examine associations between neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics and risk for live discharge from hospice because of acute hospitalization.
Factors Associated With Live Discharge of Heart Failure Patients From Hospice: A Multimethod Study.
JACC Heart Fail
July 2019
Department of Healthcare Research & Policy, Division of Health Informatics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York.
Objectives: This study identified sociodemographic and clinical factors that predicted live discharge among home hospice patients with heart failure, and related these findings to perspectives among health care providers about challenges to caring for these patients.
Background: Hospice patients with heart failure are frequently discharged from hospice before death ("live discharge"). However, little is known about the factors and circumstances associated with live discharge among patients with heart failure.