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High end of life health care costs and hospitalization burden in inflammatory bowel disease patients: A population-based study

BACKGROUND: End of life (EOL) care is associated with greater costs, particularly for acute care services. In patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), EOL costs may be accentuated due to reliance on hospital-based services and expensive diagnostic tests and treatments. We aimed to compare EOL...

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Autores principales: Murthy, Sanjay K., James, Paul D., Antonova, Lilia, Chalifoux, Mathieu, Tanuseputro, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5428925/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28498877
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0177211