Variations Between Advance Directives And Medicare End-Of-Life Costs Across The USA

A study published in the October 5 issue of JAMA shows that Medicare patients living in regions with higher levels of end-of-life spending, who made a living will (advance directive) in which they specified treatment limits were less likely to die in hospital, averaging substantially lower end-of-life Medicare spending and were much more likely to go into a hospice compared with decedents with no advance directives in these regions...

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