Examples of hospice

• Individual hospices were represented at rates ranging f rom 25% to 100%.

• Whereas oncologists and primary care physicians overwhelmingly reported having working relationships with hospice, only 57% of cardiologists reported having those contacts.

• There were no significant differences in marital status or total time receiving hospice care.

• Eight of the subjects had reported experiencing the death of a first-degree relative, and in two of these cases the member reportedly received hospice services.

• Official statistics do not distinguish deaths in hospices, which are included in 'communal establishments for the care of the sick'.

• Families reported physicians as an important barrier to earlier hospice referral in nearly one-half of cases.

• All patient characteristics were defined by abstraction of electronic medical records at the time of hospice discharge.

• This word "hospice" went in our ears and promptly exited.