Industry Note:
Hospitals Emulate Hospices
Published on Fri Feb 07, 2014
Hospitals will be taking a page from hospices’ book, if they heed a new study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine. Veterans Affairs and University of Alabama researchers implemented a "multicomponent intervention" to use best practices from home-based hospice care in the hospital. Under the Best Practices for End-of-Life Care for Our Nation’s Veterans (BEACON) program, 6,000 patients in [...]