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Hospitalisations at the end of life: using a sentinel surveillance network to study hospital use and associated patient, disease and healthcare factors
BACKGROUND: Hospital deaths following several hospital admissions or long hospital stays may be indicative of a low quality of dying. Although place of death has been extensively investigated at population level, hospital use in the last months of life and its determinants have been studied less oft...
Autores principales: | Van den Block, Lieve, Deschepper, Reginald, Drieskens, Katrien, Bauwens, Sabien, Bilsen, Johan, Bossuyt, Nathalie, Deliens, Luc |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2007
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1885255/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17488520 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-7-69 |
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