Hospice
Care
(Data
are for U.S. year indicated)
Number
of current patients: 106,000
Source:
2000
National Home and Hospice Care Survey, Table 1
Number
of discharges: 621,000
Average
length of service: 47 days
Most
common primary diagnosis: cancer, 58 percent of discharges
Source:
Characteristics of hospice care discharges and their length of service, 2000, Tables 1, 7
More Data
Hospice
patients according to age, sex, and diagnosis: 1992-2000 Health, United States,
2005, Table 95
Related Links
National
Home and Hospice Care Survey
Hospice
Foundation of America
National
Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
This page last reviewed
October 31, 2007
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