Recent Work
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Acculturation and Stereotype Threat: Advance Care Planning among Hospitalized Hispanic Patients
Ethnic minorities, especially Hispanics, are less likely than Whites to engage in advance care planning.
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Identifying Healthcare Stereotype Threat in Older Gay Men Living with HIV
The majority of Healthcare stereotype threat experiences were connected to the social identities of sexual orientation, HIV status, and age.
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A Tale of Two Trials: A Comparative Case Study of Successful Versus Terminated Home-Based Palliative Care Trials
In 2007 we published a trial of home-based palliative care (HBPC) conducted in a managed care organization (MCO) that found significant improvements in patient satisfaction with health care, rates of home deaths, and reductions in health care use and costs.
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Improving Care of People with Serious Medical Illness: An Economic Research Agenda for Palliative Care
In 2020, Schaeffer Center established an Advisory Panel on Palliative Care. In this post, the panel outlines next steps to increase the quality of care of frail people with multiple chronic conditions.
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Advance Care Planning for Medicare Beneficiaries Increased Substantially, but Prevalence Remained Low
Researchers examined fee-for-service Medicare claims and found a substantial increase in outpatient advance care planning claims between 2016 and 2019, although prevalence remained below 7.5 percent for all patient subgroups analyzed.
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