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Latarsha Chisholm1, Robert Weech-Maldonado, Amy Yarbrough Landry
1Latarsha Chisholm, MSW, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Health Management and Informatics, University of Central Florida Health and Public Affairs II, Orlando. E-mail: lrchisho@email.unc.edu. Robert Weech-Maldonado, PhD, is Professor and L. R. Jordan Endowed Chair, Department of Health Services Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Amy Yarbrough Landry, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Health Service Administration, University of Alabama at Birmingham. Josué Patien Epané, PhD, is Assistant Professor, Department of Health Administration and Policy, University of Nevada, Las Vegas.
Background:
The presence of hospital-based palliative care programs has risen over time in the United States. Nevertheless, organizational and environmental factors that contribute to the presence of hospital-based palliative care programs are unclear.
Purpose:
The aim of this study was to examine the role of organizational and environmental factors associated with the presence of hospital-based palliative care programs using resource dependence theory.
Methodology:
Panel data from 2000 to 2009 American Hospital Association Annual Survey and the Area Resource File were used in this study. A random-effect logistic regression was used to analyze the relationship between organizational and environmental factors and the presence of hospital-based palliative care programs.
Findings:
Hospitals with higher Medicare inpatient days, located in counties with higher Medicare managed penetration, and larger hospitals had greater odds of having a hospital-based palliative care program. Although hospitals in counties that have a higher percentage of individuals 65 years and older, for-profit and government hospitals were less likely to have a hospital-based palliative care program.
Practice Implications:
Hospitals will vary in the organizational resources available to them, as such, administrators' awareness of the relationship between resources and palliative care programs can help determine the relevance of a program in their hospital.
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