Where do the elderly die? The impact of nursing home utilisation on the place of death. Observations from a mortality cohort study in Flanders

BMC Public Health

Volumn 6, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Van Rensbergen, Gilberte ^a   Nawrot, Tim S ^a   Van Hecke, Ettiene ^a   Nemery, Benoit ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; DEATH; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MALE; MORTALITY; NURSING HOME; RESIDENTIAL HOME; AGED; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHY; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HOME CARE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REGISTER; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; SUPPLY AND DISTRIBUTION; TERMINAL CARE; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BELGIUM; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HOME CARE SERVICES; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT SATISFACTION; REGISTRIES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 33747849217     PISSN: 14712458     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-6-178     Document Type: Article

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