Describing Death in America: What We Need to Know: Executive Summary

by Blake D. Morrison, National Research Council, Division on Earth and Life Studies, et al.

National expenditures for medical care in the months and days preceding death are enormous. But we do not know whether that money is buying good quality care or optimizing the quality of life of those dying, or whether the situation is getting better or worse over time. The information that exists "describing death" at a national level -- though some of it is very informative -- is fragmentary. This report recommends ways to fill the information...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0309087252
• ISBN13: 9780309087254
• Release Date: May 2003
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Length: 123 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.