All we dealt with in the article was about presenting the current ways and how to improve the situation in so-called ” hospice care.” It is all about improving the patient’s life and making the system even better—the editorial deals with improving end-of-life (EOL) experiences. There can be different topics related to participation in the Oncology Care Model (OCM). (1) the impact of the OCM on hospice care, (2) the notion of preserving hope as a key objective of cancer care, (3) the tools currently and potentially available to improve EOL care, and (4) the potential impact on oncology practices of rolling hospice care into Medicare Advantage (MA) plans.
These days the Hospice care is very much a complicated matter. At the US Oncology Network (USON), in the first two years of the OCM program, USON practices saw 50,569 individual patients, of which there were 7,329 deaths. The average HC was 56.2%. Twelve percent were enrolled for < 3 days, with a raw total dying on hospice of 68%. 5.4% died in the hospital, not in the intensive care unit (ICU), and 13% died in the ICU. 46.7% of patients died on hospice at home.
At last, the editorial showers spotlight on the betterment of Hospice care development.
https://ascopubs.org/doi/full/10.1200/OP.20.00912
