Medicare Legislation for Hospice Care: Implications of National Hospice Study Data

This DataWatch section contains three studies: Vincent Mor and Howard Birnbaum of Brown University discuss implications of National Hospice Study data for hospice care legislation; Gail Wilensky and Marc Berk of the National Center for Health Services Research provide data on the sick uninsured poor; and Randall Bovbjerg, Louis H. Diamond, Philip J. Held, and Mark V. Pauly present preliminary evidence in the debate on continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis.