Heart failure (HF) is the leading cause for hospital readmission. Hospice care may help palliate HF symptoms but its association with 30-day all-cause readmission remains unknown. ⋯ A discharge hospice referral was associated with lower 30-day all-cause readmission among hospitalized patients with HF. However, most patients with HF who died within 6 months of hospital discharge did not receive a discharge hospice referral.
Raya E Kheirbek, Ross D Fletcher, Marie A Bakitas, Gregg C Fonarow, Sridivya Parvataneni, Donna Bearden, Frank A Bailey, Charity J Morgan, Steven Singh, Marc R Blackman, Michael R Zile, Kanan Patel, Momann... more a B Ahmed, Rodney O Tucker, Cynthia J Brown, Thomas E Love, Wilbert S Aronow, Jeffrey M Roseman, Michael W Rich, Richard M Allman, and Ali Ahmed. less
From the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Washington, DC (R.E.K., R.D.F., S.S., M.R.B., A.A.); Department of Medicine, George Washington University, Washington, DC (R.E.K., M.R.B.); Department of Medicine,... more Georgetown University, Washington, DC (R.D.F., S.S., M.R.B., A.A.); School of Nursing (M.A.B.) and Departments of Medicine (M.A.B., D.B., M.B.A., R.O.T., C.J.B., A.A.), Biostatistics (C.J.M.), and Epidemiology (J.M.R.), University of Alabama at Birmingham; Department of Medicine, University of California, Los Angeles (G.C.F.); Department of Medicine, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City (S.P.); Department of Medicine, University of Colorado, Denver (F.A.B.); Department of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston (M.R.Z.); Department of Medicine, Ralph H. Johnson Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Charleston, SC (M.R.Z.); Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco (K.P.); Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Birmingham, AL (C.J.B.); Department of Medicine, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (T.E.L.); Department of Medicine, New York Medical College, Valhalla (W.S.A.); Department of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, MO (M.W.R.); and Geriatrics and Extended Care Services, Department of Veterans Affairs, Washington, DC (R.M.A.). less