Hospice Study Finds Racial Disparities

Among patients with advanced heart failure, blacks and Hispanics are less likely to receive hospice care than whites, researchers found. The data are consistent with previous examinations of hospice use, and the findings "counter speculation that overall increases in the availability of hospice services in the 1990s may have erased racial and ethnic differences in hospice use." More research is needed to determine the underlying cause of the disparities. Medical News