Medical News Article on Heart Failure

Study finds race has an impact on both enrollment and disenrollment in hospice care

2012 JUL 9 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Cardiovascular Week -- INDIANAPOLIS - Although use of hospice services is increasing dramatically, a study led by Regenstrief Institute investigator Kathleen T. Unroe, M.D., MHA, an assistant research professor of medicine at the Indiana University School of Medicine, has found that nonwhite Medicare patients with heart failure are 20 percent less likely to enroll in hospice than their white counterparts.

The study also found that racial differences in hospice use persisted over time and that nonwhite patients who do enroll in hospice are more likely to disenroll than white patients.

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