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Hospice Enrollment, Local Hospice Utilization Patterns, and Rehospitalization in Medicare Patients.

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BACKGROUND:Rehospitalizations are prevalent and associated with decreased quality of life. Although hospice has been advocated to reduce rehospitalizations, it is not known how area-level hospice utilization patterns affect rehospitalization risk. OBJECTIVES:The study objective was to examine the association between hospice enrollment, local hospice utilization patterns, and 30-day rehospitalization in Medicare patients. METHODS:With a retrospective cohort design, 1,997,506 hospitalizations were assessed between 2005 and 2009 from a 5% national sample of Medicare beneficiaries. Local hospice utilization was defined using tertiles representing the percentage of all deaths occurring in hospice within each Hospital Service Area (HSA). Cox proportional hazard models were used to assess the relationship between 30-day rehospitalization, hospice enrollment, and local hospice utilization, adjusting for patient sociodemographics, medical history, and hospital characteristics. RESULTS:Rates of patients dying in hospice were 27% in the lowest hospice utilization tertile, 41% in the middle tertile, and 53% in the highest tertile. Patients enrolled in hospice had lower rates of 30-day rehospitalization than those not enrolled (2.2% versus 18.8%; adjusted hazard ratio [HR], 0.12; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.118-0.131). Patients residing in areas of low hospice utilization were at greater rehospitalization risk than those residing in areas of high utilization (19.1% versus 17.5%; HR, 1.05; 95% CI, 1.04-1.06), which persisted beyond that accounted for by individual hospice enrollment. CONCLUSIONS:Area-level hospice utilization is inversely proportional to rehospitalization rates. This relationship is not fully explained by direct hospice enrollment, and may reflect a spillover effect of the benefits of hospice extending to nonenrollees.

journal_name

J Palliat Med

journal_title

Journal of palliative medicine

authors

Holden TR,Smith MA,Bartels CM,Campbell TC,Yu M,Kind AJ

doi

10.1089/jpm.2014.0395

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2015-07-01 00:00:00

pages

601-12

issue

eissn

1096-6218

issn

1557-7740

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Hospice Enrollment, Local Hospice Utilization Patterns, and Rehospitalization in Medicare Patients.