Advance Care Planning (ACP) in Medicare Beneficiaries with Heart Failure.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Heart failure is a leading cause of death in the USA, contributing to high expenditures near the end of life. Evidence remains lacking on whether billed advance care planning changes patterns of end-of-life healthcare utilization among patients with heart failure. Large-scale claims evaluation assessing billed advance care planning and end-of-life hospitalizations among patients with heart failure can fill evidence gaps to inform health policy and clinical practice.

Objective

Assess the association between billed advance care planning delivered and Medicare beneficiaries with heart failure upon the type and quantity of healthcare utilization in the last 30 days of life.

Design

This retrospective cross-sectional cohort study used Medicare fee-for-service cla

SUBMITTER: Bose Brill S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11436682 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature