Hospice and palliative care

Completed Projects

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Rural Hospice Surveys Regarding Family Members & Health Workforce
This project's two parts surveyed both hospice users' family members and hospice CEOs regarding their health workforce staffing and shortages. The family member survey involved a sample of hospices from a geographically disperse group of states and the CEO survey involving a national random sample of hospice CEOs.
Research center: North Dakota and NORC Rural Health Reform Policy Research Center
Topics: Hospice and palliative care, Workforce

National Study of Home Health Access in Rural America
This project will develop home health care service areas that will allow for the measurement of access to home health care for rural Medicare beneficiaries who die of cancer, and recommend options for increasing access to home health care in underserved rural areas.
Research center: FORHP-funded Individual Grantees
Topics: Cancer, Health services, Home health, Hospice and palliative care, Medicare