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Access to Palliative Care for Cancer Patients Living in a Northern and Rural Environment in Ontario, Canada: The Effects of Geographic Region and Rurality on End-of-Life Care in a Population-Based Decedent Cancer Cohort

BACKGROUND: Access to palliative care has been associated with improving quality of life and reducing the use of potentially aggressive end-of-life care. However, many challenges and barriers exist in providing palliative care to residents in northern and rural settings in Ontario, Canada. AIM: The...

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Autores principales: Conlon, Michael SC, Caswell, Joseph M, Santi, Stacey A, Ballantyne, Barbara, Meigs, Margaret L, Knight, Andrew, Earle, Craig C, Hartman, Mark
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6378418/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30799969
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1179554919829500