Predictors of Hospice Enrollment for Patients With Advanced Heart Failure and Effects on Health Care Use

This study sought to: 1) identify the predictors of hospice enrollment for patients with heart failure (HF); and 2) determine the impact of hospice enrollment on health care use.Patients with HF rarely enroll in hospice. Little is known about how hospice affects this group's health care use.Using a propensity score-matched sample of Medicare decedents with ≥2 HF discharges within 6 months, an Outcome and Assessment Information Set (OASIS)...