Factors Associated With Live Discharge of Heart Failure Patients From Hospice: A Multimethod Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

This study identified sociodemographic and clinical factors that predicted live discharge among home hospice patients with heart failure, and related these findings to perspectives among health care providers about challenges to caring for these patients.

Background

Hospice patients with heart failure are frequently discharged from hospice before death ("live discharge"). However, little is known about the factors and circumstances associated with live discharge among patients with heart failure.

Methods

Quantitative analyses of patient medical records (N = 1,498) and qualitative interviews were performed with health care providers (n = 19) at a not-for-profit hospice agency in New York City.

Results

Thirty percent of home hospice patients with heart

SUBMITTER: Russell D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6599565 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature