Place of death of elderly persons in Catalonia;El lugar de fallecimiento de las personas ancianas en Cataluña

Revista Clinica Espanola

Volumn 206, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 549-555

  Ramon I ^a   Alonso, J ^b,c   Subirats, E ^d   Yanez A ^a   Santed, R ^b   Pujol, R ^e   Camp, L ^f   Florensa, E ^f   Gomez Batiste X ^f   Gonzalez C ^f   Mascaro J ^f   Rebollo, P ^f   Riquelme, M ^f   Saiz N ^f   Vila, T ^f   Vilagut, G ^f  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL DE VIC   (Spain)

^b INST MUNIC D INVESTIGACIO MEDICA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

^d Hospital de Puigcerdà   (Spain)

^e HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI DE BELLVITGE   (Spain)

^f NONE

Author keywords

End of life care; Health services utilization; Older people; Place of death

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CAREGIVER; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; ELDERLY CARE; EMERGENCY CARE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH SERVICE; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; SOCIAL WORK; SPAIN;

EID: 33845925312     PISSN: 00142565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1157/13096302     Document Type: Article

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