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Case conference primary-secondary care planning at end of life can reduce the cost of hospitalisations

BACKGROUND: To plan integrated care at end of life for people with either heart failure or lung disease, we used a case conference between the patient’s general practitioner (GP), specialist services and a palliative care consultant physician. This intervention significantly reduced hospitalisations...

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Autores principales: Hollingworth, Samantha, Zhang, Jianzhen, Vaikuntam, Bharat Phani, Jackson, Claire, Mitchell, Geoffrey
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/PMC5035497/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27663192
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-016-0157-9