Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer: access to palliative care, emergency room visits and hospital deaths

BACKGROUND: Despite the severe symptoms experienced by dying COPD patients, specialized palliative care (SPC) services focus mainly on cancer patients. We aimed to study the access to SPC that COPD and lung cancer (LC) patients receive and how that access affects the need for acute hospital care. ME...

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Autores principales: Strang, Peter, Fürst, Per, Hedman, Christel, Bergqvist, Jenny, Adlitzer, Helena, Schultz, Torbjörn
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Research
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8132345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34011344
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-021-01533-3

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8132345/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34011344
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12890-021-01533-3

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