Palliative care programs are becoming increasingly common in U.S. hospitals.To quantify the growth of hospital based palliative care programs from 2000-2003 and identify hospital characteristics associated with the development of a palliative care program.Data were obtained from the 2001-2004 American Hospital Association Annual Surveys which covered calendar years 2000-2003. We identified all programs that self-reported the presence of a hospital-owned palliative care program and acute medical and surgical beds. Multivariate logistic regression was used to identify characteristics significantly associated with the presence of a palliative care program in the 2003 survey data.Overall, the number of programs increased linearly from 632 (15

作者：R Sean, Morrison；Catherine, Maroney-Galin；Peter D, Kralovec；Diane E, Meier

来源：Journal of palliative medicine 2005 年 8卷 6期