Hospital Deaths in Sweden: Are Individual Socioeconomic Factors Relevant?

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 317-323

  Hanratty, Barbara ^a   Burström, Bo ^a   Walander, Anders ^a   Whitehead, Margaret ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

older people; Place of death; terminal care

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADULT; AGED; AMBULATORY CARE; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; DEATH; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GERIATRIC PATIENT; HEALTH SERVICE; HEART DISEASE; HOSPICE CARE; HUMAN; INCOME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; POPULATION RESEARCH; REGISTER; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SWEDEN; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SWEDEN;

EID: 33847620349     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2006.09.012     Document Type: Article

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