Palliative care 2016

Arch Intern Med. 2009 Mar 9;169(5):480-8 Health care costs in the last week of life:

associations with end-of-life conversations Zhang B1, Wright AA, Huskamp HA, Nilsson ME, Maciejewski ML, Earle CC, Block SD, Maciejewski PK, Prigerson HG

Socio-demographic characteristics of -age, -race, -gender, -education, -survival time, -and source of report, were controlled for in the adjusted analyses per capita cost predicting quality of death in the deceased cohort.

N = 316

QoL +40% Cost x 2 – 8

5 Funded by the National Institute of Mental Health and the National Cancer Institute - USA