Survival Variation and Predictors of Length of Stay in U.S. Hospice Patients: A Retrospective Cohort Study

Ian Duncan, Xiyue Liao, Department of Statistics , Applied Probability, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University, San Diego

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®

Published online on December 27, 2025

Abstract

American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine®, Ahead of Print.
Hospice provides comfort care to patients at end of life. Survival of patients in hospice shows considerable variation. Using a large national database of hospice patient data from 2015-6 we perform a descriptive analysis and examine this variation, and ...