AJPH First Look, published online ahead of print May 30, 2006
Likelihood of Home Death Associated With Local Rates of Home Birth: Influence of Local Area Healthcare Preferences on Site of Death
Maria J. Silveira, MD, MA, MPH,
Laurel A. Copeland, PhD, MPH and
Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH
Maria J. Silveira is with the VA Health Services Research and Development Center of Excellence, VA Ann Arbor Healthcare System, Ann Arbor, and the Division of General Medicine and the Bioethics Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Laurel A. Copeland is with the South Texas Veterans Health Care System VERDICT Research Program, San Antonio, and the Department of Psychiatry, University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio. Chris Feudtner is a member of the Pediatric Advanced Care Team, The Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa, the Pediatric Generalist Research Group, Department of Pediatrics, Center for Bioethics, Leonard Davis Institute, Philadelphia, and Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

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FIGURE 1 How local preference for hospital care may confound the relation between hospital bed capacity and place of death.
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