Industry Note:
Docs' Personal Preferences Drive Hospice Timing
Published on Fri Jan 10, 2014
Physician preference, rather than pa-tient preference, may be guiding hospice utilization more often than widely thought. "Physicians often delay hospice discussions with their terminally ill patients despite guidelines recommending such discussions for patients expected to die within 1 year," says a new study in the Dec. 16 issue of JAMA Internal Medicine. "Reasons for this are not well understood," the [...]