Hospice News December 17, 2019
Data on the availability of community-based palliative care services is limited, but new numbers from the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC) show that at least half of the in-home providers of those services in the United States are hospices.
CAPC recently completed a three-year project to quantify the prevalence of community-based palliative care providers nationwide. The organization recently reported on its research, based on an online survey to which 890 palliative care providers responded.
While the nation’s health care community has not reached consensus on a standardized definition for palliative care, CAPC applied the following for the purposes of its study.
“Palliative care is a team approach to...
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