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Hospice usage by minorities in the last year of life — results from the National Mortality Followback Survey
Author(s)	K Allen Greiner, Subashan Perera, Jasjit S Ahluwalia
Journal title	Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, vol 51, no 7, July 2003
Pages	pp 970-978
Keywords	Ethnic groups ; Dying ; Terminal care ; Usage [services] ; Social surveys.
Annotation	Secondary analysis of the US National Mortality Followback Survey (NMFS) for 1993, revealed that hospice use was negatively associated with African-American race or ethnicity, independent of income and access to healthcare. The relationship is not independent of age, insurance type, or history of stroke. For subjects aged 55+, access to healthcare may be an important confounder of the negative relationship between African-American race/ethnicity and hospice use. Consistent with previous studies, the analysis found that African-Americans were less likely to use a living will (LW) than whites. The reduced importance of African-American race/ethnicity on hospice use with the inclusion or presence of a LW in logistic models suggests that similar cultural processes may shape differences between African Americans and whites in advance care planning and hospice use. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-030813207 A
Classmark	TK: CX: LV: QLD: 3F
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