What determines duration of palliative care before death for patients with advanced disease? A retrospective cohort study of community and hospital palliative care provision in a large UK city

OBJECTIVE: For patients with advanced cancer, several randomised controlled trials have shown that access to palliative care at least 6 months before death can improve symptoms, reduce unplanned hospital admissions, minimise aggressive cancer treatments and enable patients to make choices about thei...

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Veröffentlicht in:BMJ Open
Hauptverfasser: Bennett, Michael I, Ziegler, Lucy, Allsop, Matthew, Daniel, Sunitha, Hurlow, Adam
Format: Artigo
Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: BMJ Publishing Group 2016
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Palliative Care
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5168608/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27940628
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2016-012576
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