Trends in Hospice Discharge and Relative Outcomes Among Medicare Patients in the Get With The Guidelines–Heart Failure Registry

Importance

While 1 in 10 older patients hospitalized with heart failure (HF) die within 30 days, end-of-life care for this population is not well described.

Objective

To assess rates of discharge to hospice, readmission after hospice, and survival in hospice in patients following hospital discharge.

Design, Setting, and Participants

In this observational cohort analysis of patients in the multicenter American Heart...