title: Hospital mortality rates: how is palliative care taken into account?
authors.affiliation: Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, USA. jbcassel@vcu.edu
authors.forename: J Brian
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Cassel
authors.forename: Amber B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Jones
authors.forename: Diane E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Meier
authors.forename: Thomas J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Smith
authors.forename: Lynn Hill
authors.initials: LH
authors.lastname: Spragens
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Weissman
mesh_terms: D017051:Hospice Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D017052:Hospital Mortality; D006760:Hospitalization; D006801:Humans; D008484:Medicaid; D006278:Medicare; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D019984:Quality Indicators, Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D014481:United States