Which late-stage Alzheimer's patients should be referred for hospice care?

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Title:	Which late-stage Alzheimer's patients should be referred for hospice care?
Author:	Modi, Seema; Moore, Cassandra
Keywords:	Minimum Data Set (MDS) Medicare guidelines Functional Assessment Staging Scale (FAST) mortality
Date:	2005-11
Publisher:	Family Physicians Inquiries Network
Citation:	Journal of Family Practice, 54(11) 2005: 984-986.
Abstract:	Medicare guidelines are used to determine eligibility for hospice care (strength of recommendation [SOR]: C, based on expert opinion), but they correlate with 6-month mortality no better than an experienced clinician's judgment (SOR: B, based on 1 cohort study). Recent studies, however, have identified additional criteria that may better predict survival in select populations.
URI:	http://hdl.handle.net/10355/3389