The impact of community-based palliative care on acute hospital use in the last year of life is modified by time to death, age and underlying cause of death. A population-based retrospective cohort study

OBJECTIVE: Community-based palliative care is known to be associated with reduced acute care health service use. Our objective was to investigate how reduced acute care hospital use in the last year of life varied temporally and by patient factors. METHODS: A retrospective cohort study of the last y...

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Autores principales: Spilsbury, Katrina, Rosenwax, Lorna, Arendts, Glenn, Semmens, James B.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2017
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5608395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28934324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185275

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5608395/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28934324
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0185275

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