Differences in do-not-resuscitate orders, hospice care utilization, and late referral to hospice care between cancer and non-cancer decedents in a tertiary Hospital in Taiwan between 2010 and 2015: a hospital-based observational study

BACKGROUND: In 2009, the Taiwanese national health insurance system substantially expanded hospice coverage for terminal cancer patients to include patients with end-stage brain, dementia, heart, lung, liver, and kidney diseases. This study aimed to evaluate differences in do-not-resuscitate (DNR) s...

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Autores principales: Shih, Tzu-Chien, Chang, Hsiao-Ting, Lin, Ming-Hwai, Chen, Chun-Ku, Chen, Tzeng-Ji, Hwang, Shinn-Jang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5784719/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29368644
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-018-0271-y

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