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Reasons for transferral to emergency departments of terminally ill patients - a French descriptive and retrospective study

BACKGROUND: Patients under palliative care and in hospital-at-home services are frequently transferred to emergency departments. We set out to identify the reasons for these presentations to determine the proportion that might be avoidable. METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study by assessment o...

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Autores principales: Cornillon, Pierre, Loiseau, Sébastien, Aublet-Cuvelier, Bruno, Guastella, Virginie
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/PMC5073929/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27769258
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-016-0155-y