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End-of-Life Care and Place of Death
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, February 12, 2013
Most people want to die at home, but few do. A study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association examines changes in place of death and use of hospice care over the last decade for Medicare beneficiaries.
Tags: End-of-Life Care, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Medicare
More on End-of-Life Care
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, November 14, 2012
A substantial amount of Medicare and overall health spending is incurred in the last few months of patients’ lives. Much of this spending is due to intensive care that obviously is rather superfluous at that point. A new article in the Journal of Clinical Oncology reports on research regarding end-of-life discussions and resulting care.
Tags: Care Management, End-of-Life Care, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality
2012 Potpourri XXXIV
by Kevin Roche on Friday, November 9, 2012
Thank God the election is finally over, but our Potpourri is never-ending, this week bringing you the latest on why comparative effectiveness research results don’t translate to practice, innovations to reduce health spending, the value of medication adherence, factors related to end-of-life quality and MedPAC on new quality measures for avoidable hospital and ER use.
Tags: Comparative Effectiveness, Drugs, End-of-Life Care, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Hospital, Medicare
2012 Potpourri XXXIII
by Kevin Roche on Friday, November 2, 2012
Another installment of our non-award winning (are there any potential awards?) Potpourri, this one examining drug costs for conditions of aging, self-referral in imaging, in home palliative care at the end-of-life, more on hospital readmissions and retail clinic utilization.
Tags: Care Management, Drugs, End-of-Life Care, Health Care Costs, Hospital Readmissions, Physicians, Retail Clinics
2012 Potpourri XXVI
by Kevin Roche on Friday, August 17, 2012
Another sunny Potpourri, brightening your day with rays of data on hospital at home; Medicare care coordination programs; an employer survey on impacts of the reform law; a survey on health habits and employee productivity; first quarter health plan results and ER use and end-of-life care.
Tags: Care Management, End-of-Life Care, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, Health Insurance, Hospital, Medicare, Wellness and Prevention, Workplace
Surrogate Decision-makers and End-of-Life Care
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, March 28, 2012
End-of-life care accounts for a large fraction of health spending. Often decisions regarding such care are made by surrogates and new research published in the Annals of Internal Medicine suggest that analytical biases lead these surrogates to misinterpret information provided by physicians.
2012 Potpourri VII
by Kevin Roche on Friday, February 24, 2012
Our latest Potpourri, a week late and we apologize, covers virtual coaching, the integration of drug and medical benefit management, how doctors chose to handle their own end-of-life care, Medicaid and ER visits, and malpractice and orthopedics.
Tags: Drugs, End-of-Life Care, Health Care Costs, HIT, Hospital, Malpractice, Medicaid, Physicians, Telemedicine, Wellness and Prevention
End-of-Life Care Discussions
by Kevin Roche on Thursday, February 23, 2012
End-of-life care discussions got some unwarranted and unwanted attention during the reform law debates, being characterized as “death panels”. The discussions are important, however, to ensure consistency with patient preferences and a new study finds they don’t always happen in the best manner.
Tags: End-of-Life Care, Physicians
End-of-Life Care
by Kevin Roche on Tuesday, January 3, 2012
A draft evidence report from AHRQ looks at end-of-life and hospice care. End-of-life care is often fingered as one of the causes of increasing health spending. The report finds moderate evidence supporting beneficial effects from many of the studied interventions.
Tags: End-of-Life Care, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Medicare
Advance Directives and End-of-Life Spending
by Kevin Roche on Wednesday, October 12, 2011
End-of-life care is a significant contributor to overall health expenditures. New research in the Journal of the American Medical Association probes the effect of advance directives on end-of-life spending, with a particular focus on geographic variations both in the use of directives and care.
Tags: Elder Care, End-of-Life Care, Health Care Costs, Health Care Quality, Medicare
2011 Potpourri XXXIX
by Kevin Roche on Friday, October 7, 2011
October already!! Our 39th Potpourri of the year has many autumnal pleasures including selections on CMS’ Comprehensive Primary Care Initiative, a proposed guidance for FDA to use for mHealth regulation, end-of-life care discussions, CMS’ multi-payer database award, expected 2012 medical trend, and delivery of unnecessary care by doctors.
Tags: Care Management, Comparative Effectiveness, End-of-Life Care, FDA, Health Insurance, HIT, medical home, Medicare, Physicians, Telemedicine
2011 Potpourri XXIV
by Kevin Roche on Friday, June 17, 2011
The week’s Potpourri continues the tradition of presenting excellent nuggets of health information, including EHR use in the VA system, the effect of making surrogate care decisions, screening for ovarian cancer, gaps in health among socioeconomic groups, cancer care guideline compliance, and ER visits in Massachusetts.
Tags: Care Management, EHRs, Elder Care, End-of-Life Care, Health Care Costs, Health Care Reform, HIT, Wellness and Prevention
2011 Potpourri XXIII
by Kevin Roche on Friday, June 10, 2011
Another scintillating menu of health care tidbits, including provider reaction to the proposed Accountable Care Organization rule; end-of-life care in the US and Canada; hospital volume and outcomes for difficult surgeries; hospital marketing of robotic surgery; and cutting lab test costs.
Tags: ACO, Elder Care, End-of-Life Care, Health Care Costs, Hospital
2010 Potpourri V
by Kevin Roche on Saturday, February 13, 2010
One more Saturday….morning. And another potpourri of health care news. This one includes health information technology, consumer directed health plans, guidelines, support group functioning, end-of-life care and telemedicine.
Tags: Consumer Directed Health, Consumers, End-of-Life Care, HIT, Pay For Performance, Telemedicine
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