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Are emergency admissions in palliative cancer care always necessary? Results from a descriptive study

OBJECTIVES: Patients with advanced cancer are often admitted to hospital as emergency cases. This may not always be medically indicated. Study objectives were to register the reasons for the emergency admissions, to examine interventions performed during hospitalisation and self-reported symptom int...

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Autores principales: Hjermstad, Marianne Jensen, Kolflaath, Jan, Løkken, Aud O, Hanssen, Sjur B, Normann, Are P, Aass, Nina
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BMJ Publishing Group 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3669727/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23793662
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2012-002515

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