Trends in the Use of Intensive Procedures at the End of Life

Barnato Amber E., Garber Alan M., Kagay Christopher R. and McClellan Mark C.
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Barnato Amber E.: Stanford University School of Medicine
Garber Alan M.: Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System, Stanford University and NBER
Kagay Christopher R.: NBER
McClellan Mark C.: Stanford University and NBER

Forum for Health Economics & Policy, 2001, vol. 4, issue 1, 22

Abstract: Despite widely publicized changes in attitudes toward the care of the dying and rapid growth in hospice care and other services targeted toward the dying, a remarkably stable 30 percent of total Medicare expenditures is spent on the 5 percent of Medicare bene

Date: 2001
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