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Early initiation of palliative care is associated with reduced late-life acute-hospital use: A population-based retrospective cohort study

BACKGROUND: Early palliative care can reduce end-of-life acute-care use, but findings are mainly limited to cancer populations receiving hospital interventions. Few studies describe how early versus late palliative care affects end-of-life service utilization. AIM: To investigate the association bet...

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Autores principales: Qureshi, Danial, Tanuseputro, Peter, Perez, Richard, Pond, Greg R, Seow, Hsien-Yeang
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6399729/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30501459
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0269216318815794