Study: Minorities Receive More Costly End-of-Life Care
End-of-life care costs for blacks and Hispanics are much higher than for whites, according to a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine. The study did not identify why minorities receive more costly end-of-life care.
- "Blacks, Latinos Have Steeper End-of-Life Costs" (Tanner, AP/San Jose Mercury News, 3/10).