Concurrent Care as the Next Frontier in End-of-Life Care.
JAMA Health Forum
; 4(8): e232603, 2023 08 04.
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ABSTRACT
Importance Hospice care is a unique type of medical care for people near the end of life and their families, with an emphasis on providing physical and psychological symptom management, spiritual care, and family caregiver support to promote quality of life. However, many people in the US who could benefit from hospice have very short stays or do not enroll at all due to current hospice policy. Changing policy to allow for concurrent availability of disease-directed therapy and hospice care-known as concurrent care-offers an opportunity to increase hospice use and lengths of stay. Observations Under Medicare payment policy, hospices are responsible for covering all costs related to patients' terminal conditions under a per diem rate. This payment structure has led to a de facto requirement that patients forgo costly therapies (including life-prolonging treatments or those with palliative intent) on enrollment in hospice because they are prohibitively expensive. In other countries, in Medicaid for children, and in the Veterans Health Administration in the US, there is greater flexibility in providing hospice services alongside life-prolonging care. Often paired with innovative payment models, concurrent care smooths practical, psychological, and physical care transitions when patient goals prioritize comfort. For example, allowing simultaneous receipt of hospice care and dialysis for people living with end-stage kidney disease-a group with relatively low hospice enrollment-can act as a bridge to hospice and potentially promote longer lengths of stay. Conclusions and Relevance Medicare and health care delivery systems are increasingly testing payment and care delivery models to improve hospice use via concurrent care, offering an important opportunity for innovation to better meet the needs of people living with serious illness and their families.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Assistência Terminal
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Cuidados Paliativos na Terminalidade da Vida
Aspecto:
Patient_preference
Limite:
Aged
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Child
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Humans
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
JAMA Health Forum
Ano de publicação:
2023
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de publicação:
EEUU
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ESTADOS UNIDOS
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ESTADOS UNIDOS DA AMERICA
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EUA
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UNITED STATES
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UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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US
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USA