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Closing the Gap in Hospice Utilization for the Minority Medicare Population

Background: Medicare spends about 20% more on the last year of life for Black and Hispanic people than White people. With lower hospice utilization rates, racial/ethnic minorities receive fewer hospice-related benefits such as lesser symptoms, lower costs, and improved quality of life. For-profit ho...

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Autores principales: Hughes, M. Courtney, Vernon, Erin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6598325/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31276019
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2333721419855667