Hospice Enrollment After Referral to Community-Based, Specialist Palliative Care: Impact of Telephonic Outreach  Alexa Riggs, BA, Brenda Breuer, PhD, Lara Dhingra, PhD, Jack Chen, MBS, Russell K. Portenoy, MD, Helena Knotkova, PhD  Journal of Pain and Symptom Management  Volume 54, Issue 2, Pages 219-225 (August 2017) DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.03.007 Copyright © 2017 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Terms and Conditions

Fig. 1 Call data from patients who enrolled in hospice after telephonic outreach alone. Of the 177 patients, call data were available from 132 patients. (a) The number of telephone calls per patient. (b) The distribution of days during which patients received telephone calls. The median is displayed as the horizontal line in the middle of the box, and the x indicates the mean. The outer edges of the box show the 25th and 75th percentiles. The outer bars show the fifth and 95th percentiles; and individual data points are displayed outside of the 95th percentile. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2017 54, 219-225DOI: (10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.03.007) Copyright © 2017 American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Terms and Conditions