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Effect of a Home-Based Palliative Care Program on Healthcare Use and Costs
Read a clinical journal article about how home-based palliative care led to lower hospital use & reduced costs.
Individuals who received the intervention between 2007 and 2014 (n = 368) were matched with 1,075 comparison individuals within each of four disease groups: cancer, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure, and dementia. All were known to be dead at the time of the retrospective study, were Medicare Advantage beneficiaries, and had 2 years of usage data before death. Median age at death for each disease group was older than 80.