American Medical News 
(5/7, O'Reilly) reports, "Patients on dialysis are subject to much
more intensive medical care in the last month of life than are patients
dying of cancer or heart failure, said an analysis of Medicare data that
is raising concerns about the end-of-life care that patients with
end-stage renal disease receive." Almost "80% of Medicare patients on
dialysis were hospitalized in the 30 days before death and spent twice
as many days in the hospital as patients
dying of cancer, said a
research letter
published April 23 in Archives of Internal Medicine that was based on
data from nearly 100,000 patients from the US Renal Data System and
Medicare between 2004 and 2009."
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