Physician Palliative Education Associated With High Use of Hospice Care Service.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Taiwan's National Health Insurance provides coverage for palliative and hospice care. The following 10 types of diseases have been added to the National Health Insurance reimbursement regulation: end-stage cancer, motor neuron disease, organic psychosis, brain degeneration, heart failure, chronic airway obstruction diseases, other lung diseases, chronic liver disease and cirrhosis, acute renal failure, and chronic renal failure.

Objective

This study aimed to determine the association between physicians' palliative education and use of hospice care in hospitalized patients at the end of life.

Design and setting

A cross-sectional study in a Taipei community hospital.

Participants

Patients who died between 2014 and 2019 were identified. The deceased had

SUBMITTER: Chuang MH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8793295 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature