Palliative care is expanding rapidly in the United States.To examine variation in access to hospital palliative care.Data were obtained from the American Hospital Association (AHA) Annual Surveys™ for Fiscal Years 2012 and 2013, the National Palliative Care Registry™, the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare, the American Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS), web searches, and telephone interviews of hospital administrators and program directors. Multivariable logistic regression was used to examine predictors of hospital palliative care programs.Sixty-seven percent of hospitals with 50 or more total facility beds reported a palliative care program. Institutional characteristics were strongly associated with the presence of a hospital palliative care program. Ninety percent of hospitals with 300 beds or more were found to have palliative care programs as compared to 56
作者:Tamara, Dumanovsky;Rachel, Augustin;Maggie, Rogers;Katrina, Lettang;Diane E, Meier;R Sean, Morrison
来源:Journal of palliative medicine 2016 年 19卷 1期