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Benefits, for patients with late stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, of being cared for in specialized palliative care compared to hospital. A nationwide register study

BACKGROUND: In early stage chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), dyspnea has been reported as the main symptom; but at the end of life, patients dying from COPD have a heavy symptom burden. Still, specialist palliative care is seldom offered to patients with COPD; they more often receive end...

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Autores principales: Henoch, Ingela, Ekberg-Jansson, Ann, Löfdahl, Claes-Göran, Strang, Peter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8386075/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34429078
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12904-021-00826-y