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All Chronically Ill Patients
NOTE: The rates and populations in the HRR and state tables are lower than those in the hospital tables. The regional rates include chronically ill patients who were not hospitalized during the last two years of life, which has the effect of reducing the per capita rates (since these patients were never hospitalized, they had no hospital utilization and lower physician utilization than hospitalized patients).
Relevant Reports
- Tracking Improvement in the Care of Chronically Ill Patients: A Dartmouth Atlas Brief on Medicare Beneficiaries Near the End of Life (2013)
- Trends and Variation in End-of-Life Care for Medicare Beneficiaries with Severe Chronic Illness (2011)
- Tracking the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness (2008)
- The Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness: A Report on the Medicare Program (2006)
Longitudinal (All Years, All Measures)
2008-2019
Values of -99999 indicate data suppressed for privacy (confidentiality)
By Year (One Year, All Measures)
Values of -99999 indicate data suppressed for privacy (confidentiality)
(xls/xlsx)
- Deaths occurring in
- 2019
- 2018
- 2017
- 2016
- 2015*
- 2014
- 2013
- 2012
- 2011
- 2010
- 2009
- 2008
- 2003-07**
- 2001-05**
*Data for 2015 are based on deaths occurring between January 1 and September 30, 2015
**Click here to read about changes in methods between the 2001-05 and 2003-07 analyses.
Cancer Patients
Relevant Reports
- End-of-Life Quality Metrics Among Medicare Decedents at Minority-Serving Cancer Centers: A Retrospective Study (2020)
- Trends in Cancer Care Near the End of Life (2013)
- Quality of End-of-Life Cancer Care for Medicare Beneficiaries: Regional and Hospital-Specific Analyses (2010)
By Year (One Year, All Measures)
(csv for 2019 and on, xls/xlsx pre-2019)