Hospice
Care
(Data
are for U.S. for 2000)
Number
of current patients: 106,000
Source:
National
Home and Hospice Care Survey
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
More Data
Hospice
patients according to age, sex, and diagnosis: 1992-2000
Health, United States,
2003, table 88
Related Links
National
Home and Hospice Care Survey
Hospice
Foundation of America
National
Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
This page last reviewed
March 25, 2004
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