Hospital Responses to the End of Life Option Act

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Authors

Cindy Cain · University of Alabama at Birmingham

Barbara A. Koenig · University of California, San Francisco

Helene Starks · University of Washington

Judy Thomas · Coalition for Compassionate Care of California

Lindsay Forbes · University of California, San Francisco

Sara G. McCleskey · University of California, Los Angeles

Neil S. Wenger

Abstract

This survey study of statewide California hospitals evaluates the prevalence and institutional characteristics of hospitals and health systems that have either implemented or opted out of the state’s End of Life Option Act.

Topics & Keywords

Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life Healthcare Policy and Management Healthcare cost, quality, practices

UN Sustainable Development Goals

Zero hunger

Publication Details

Published in: JAMA Internal Medicine

Volume 179, Issue 7, pp. 985-985

DOI: 10.1001/jamainternmed.2018.8690

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