Patient characteristics and end-of-life health care utilization among medicare beneficiaries in 1989 and 1999

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Patient Acceptance of Health Care 80%
• Terminal Care 80%
• Medicare 70%
• Skilled Nursing Facilities 47%
• Hospices 28%
• Hospice and Palliative Care Nursing 18%
• Insurance Claim Review 16%
• Semantic Web 14%
• Facilities and Services Utilization 13%
• Long-Term Care 12%
• Research Design 9%
• Retrospective Studies 7%
• Growth 5%

Social Sciences

• Health Care Utilization 100%
• utilization 54%
• hospice 41%
• nursing 25%
• death 16%
• Group 13%
• dying 11%
• research planning 9%
• efficiency 8%
• disability 7%
• time 3%