title: Issues & trends affecting the nation's hospices.
abstract: As the hospice industry has grown and moved from isolation into the health care system, it necessarily faces new issues. Some are definite, such as budget considerations; others are more theoretical--for instance, physician-assisted suicide--and thus may remain up for debate as hospice matures into an as-yet-unseen status.
authors.affiliation: Hospice Association of America, Washington, DC, USA.
authors.forename: D H
authors.initials: DH
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D002017:Budgets / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D005607:Fraud; D019983:Guideline Adherence; D006738:Hospices / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration / Q000639:trends*; D006801:Humans; D017146:Models, Organizational; D012051:Reimbursement Mechanisms; D017236:Suicide, Assisted; D013727:Terminal Care; D014481:United States