 The myth regarding the high cost of end-of-life careM.D. Aldridge and A.S. Kelley American Journal of Public Health, 2015, vol. 105, issue 12, 2411-2415 Abstract: Health care reform debate in the United States is largely focused on the highly concentrated health care costs among a small proportion of the population and policy proposals to identify and target this "high-cost" group. To better understand this population, we conducted an analysis for the Institute of Medicine Committee on Approaching Death using existing national data sets, peer-reviewed literature, and published reports. We estimated that in 2011, among those with the highest costs, only 11% were in their last year of life, and approximately13% of the $ 1.6 trillion spenton personal healthcare costs in the United States was devoted to care of individuals in their last year of life. Public health interventions to reduce health care costs should target those with long-term chronic conditions and functional limitations. Keywords: chronic disease; cost control; economics; health care cost; health care policy; human; procedures; statistics and numerical data; terminal care; total quality management; United States, Chronic Disease; Cost Savings; Health Care Costs; Health Policy; Humans; Quality Improvement; Terminal Care; United States (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:aph:ajpbhl:10.2105/ajph.2015.302889_3 Access Statistics for this article American Journal of Public Health is currently edited by Alfredo Morabia More articles in American Journal of Public Health from American Public Health Association |
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