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Patients requiring palliative care attending a regional hospital emergency centre in South Africa: A descriptive study

BACKGROUND: : Globally, emergency centers (ECs) face increasing patients with palliative care (PC) needs. This is also true for South Africa. Factors include an increasingly older population, rising rates of non-communicable and infectious diseases. A paucity of data exists on local rates and reason...

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Autores principales:	Straeuli, Christopher, Jenkins, Louis, Droomer, Nardus
Formato:	Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	African Federation for Emergency Medicine 2022
Materias:	Original Article
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9489731/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36187076 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.afjem.2022.08.006

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