BY THE NUMBERS // By LINDA KESLAR // Spring 2007 <p><span class="numbers">80</span> <BR>Percentage of people 45 or older in a 1999 survey who did not know the meaning of hospice</p> <p><span class="numbers">33</span> <BR>Percentage of people who died in the United States in 2005 under hospice care</p> <p><span class="numbers">75.9</span> <BR>Percentage of hospice patients who die in private residences, nursing homes or other residential facilities. In the general population, 23.4% die at home.</p> <p><span class="numbers">18</span> <BR>Percentage of medical students and residents in a 2003 survey who reported receiving formal end-of-life training </p> <p><span class="numbers">30</span> <BR>Percentage of hospice care provided by for-profit organizations in 2004, a fourfold increase over the preceding decade </p> <p><span class="numbers">9</span> <BR>Times by which profit margins of large hospices owned by publicly traded companies are higher than those of large nonprofits. (One 2004 study found that for-profits were far less likely to provide a full range of services than were nonprofits.) </p> <p><span class="numbers">$117.10</span> <BR>Average daily cost of routine hospice care, according to a 2001 study </p> <p><span class="numbers">$500</span> <BR>Average daily cost of end-of-life hospital care </p> 0 0 2008-11-12T18:57:26-06:00 #<User:0xa31cff4> Judging by the numbers, this type of care is still underrecognized. 0 Hospice&rsquo;s Growing Pains 0 207 false Spring 2007 Hospice&rsquo;s Growing Pains Judging by the numbers, this type of care is still underrecognized. hospice, end of life care, death , death rate, palliative care, statistics, nursing home, home, nonprofit, for-profit, cost, linda keslar hospices-growing-pains 2007-03-01 212 213 0

Judging by the numbers, this type of care is still underrecognized.

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