End-of-life care patterns shift for patients with heart failure in both US and Canada

Health care in the last six months of life has become progressively more expensive for patients with heart failure both among Medicare beneficiaries in the United States and older adults in Canada, with a high rate of hospitalizations in the final six months of life in both countries, according to two reports posted online today that will be published in the February 14 print issue of Archives of Internal Medicine. A third report finds that more men dying of prostate cancer are receiving hospice care, but that the timing of hospice referral remains poor.

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