Shift to Hospice Care Often Comes Too Late, Study Finds
Although most people would prefer to die peacefully in a comfortable setting, a new study shows that almost one in three spend some time in the intensive-care unit of a hospital in their last month of life while a similar number only get hospice care a few days before dying.
And 40 percent of those late hospice care referrals come right after an ICU stay, the researchers noted.
"People...