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What New Allegations that HCA Healthcare Pressured Patients Mean for Hospices

Hospice News

Moreover, families frequently give feedback that they wished their loved ones had entered hospice earlier in order to reap the full benefits, often via Consumer Assessment of Health Care Provider and Systems (CAHPS) surveys, according to the National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO).

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RCT of Default Inpatient PC Consults: Kate Courtright & Scott Halpern

GeriPal

Stepped-wedge is… It’s easier with a visual, but it simply means, at its core with two groups, that every hospital in our case starts in routine care or whatever the usual care definition is and will ultimately, in a randomized fashion, transition to adopt the intervention in steps, meaning over time.