OBJECTIVE: Little is known about factors that influence whether children with chronic conditions die at home. We sought to test whether deaths attributable to underlying complex chronic conditions (CCCs) were increasingly occurring at home and to…
OBJECTIVE: For patients who die in hospitals, the regionalization of tertiary health care services may be increasing the home-to-hospital distance, particularly for younger patients whose care is especially regionalized and for whom access to and use…
Background Recent discussions about health care reform have raised questions regarding the value of advance directives. Methods We used data from survey proxies in the Health and Retirement Study involving adults 60 years of age or older who had died…
