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The size of the population potentially in need of palliative care in Germany - an estimation based on death registration data

BACKGROUND: No data exist on the size of the population potentially in need of palliative care in Germany. The aim of this study is to estimate the size of the German population that may benefit from palliative care. METHOD: Based on existing population-based methods (Rosenwax and Murtagh), German d...

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Autores principales: Scholten, Nadine, Günther, Anna Lena, Pfaff, Holger, Karbach, Ute
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4782573/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26957121
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-016-0099-2