title: The National Home and Hospice Care Survey: 1996 summary.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This report presents data about agencies providing home and hospice care, their current patients, and their discharges. The data are presented in 159 tables according to standard sets of descriptive variables. The tables are grouped into five categories: agencies, home health care current patients, home health care discharges, hospice care current patients, and hospice care discharges. Data are presented on agency characteristics, demographic characteristics, utilization measures, and health and functional status of current patients and discharges.
  
  
  METHODS
  The data used for this report are from the National Center for Health Statistics' 1996 National Home and Hospice Care Survey. This is a sample survey through which data are collected on the use of home health and hospice care agencies in the United States. The data were collected by personal interview using three questionnaires and two sampling lists.
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: Haupt
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002648:Child; D003625:Data Collection; D003953:Diagnosis-Related Groups / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017051:Hospice Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008134:Long-Term Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010351:Patient Discharge / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D014481:United States