Eligibility criteria contribute to racial disparities in hospice use

A new study finds that hospice services - care that is provided by physicians, visiting nurses, chaplains, home health aides, social workers and counsellors - have restrictions that reduce usage by many patients who are most in-need, particularly African Americans. The research, published in the 1 February 2009 issue of CANCER, a peer-reviewed journal of the American Cancer Society, indicates that the eligibility criteria for hospice services should be reconsidered...

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