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Factors associated with emergency services use in Taiwanese advanced cancer patients receiving palliative home care services during out-of-hours periods: a retrospective medical record study

BACKGROUND: For patients receiving palliative home care, the need to visit the emergency department is considered to be an indicator of poor quality care. The situation can be particularly distressing when it occurs outside of normal hours of palliative home care service. The aim of this study was t...

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Autores principales: Kao, Yee-Hsin, Liu, Yao-Ting, Koo, Malcolm, Chiang, Jui-Kun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5848533/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29530021
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-018-0302-8