TY - JOUR
T1 - Black and hispanic patients receive hospice care similar to that of white patients when in the same hospices
AU - Price, Rebecca Anhang
AU - Parast, Layla
AU - Haas, Ann
AU - Teno, Joan M.
AU - Elliott, Marc N.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Project HOPE-The People-to-People Health Foundation, Inc.
PY - 2017/7/1
Y1 - 2017/7/1
N2 - Little is known about racial and ethnic variation in the quality of hospice care. We used data on 292,516 respondents for 2015-16 from the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey to assess how the patient and family experience of hospice care differed among black, Hispanic, and white patients. We found that, on average, black and Hispanic patients received care from poorer quality hospices. Within a given hospice, we found that friends and relatives who served as caregivers of black and Hispanic patients reported significantly better hospice care experiences than their peers serving as caregivers of white patients on five of seven outcomes. However, caregivers of black and Hispanic patients reported receiving their desired level of emotional and religious support less often than caregivers of white patients did. As more black and Hispanic patients enroll in hospice care, it is critical to ensure that they have access to high-quality, culturally competent hospice services.
AB - Little is known about racial and ethnic variation in the quality of hospice care. We used data on 292,516 respondents for 2015-16 from the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (CAHPS) Hospice Survey to assess how the patient and family experience of hospice care differed among black, Hispanic, and white patients. We found that, on average, black and Hispanic patients received care from poorer quality hospices. Within a given hospice, we found that friends and relatives who served as caregivers of black and Hispanic patients reported significantly better hospice care experiences than their peers serving as caregivers of white patients on five of seven outcomes. However, caregivers of black and Hispanic patients reported receiving their desired level of emotional and religious support less often than caregivers of white patients did. As more black and Hispanic patients enroll in hospice care, it is critical to ensure that they have access to high-quality, culturally competent hospice services.
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U2 - 10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0151
DO - 10.1377/hlthaff.2017.0151
M3 - Article
C2 - 28679816
AN - SCOPUS:85021826491
SN - 0278-2715
VL - 36
SP - 1283
EP - 1290
JO - Health Affairs
JF - Health Affairs
IS - 7
ER -