Factors associated with end-of-life health service use in patients dying of cancer

Healthcare Policy

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2010, Pages

  Barbera, Lisa ^a,b   Sussman, Jonathan ^c,d   Viola, Raymond ^e,f   Husain, Amna ^a,b   Howell, Doris ^a,g   Librach, S Lawrence ^a,b   Walker, Hugh ^f   Sutradhar, Rinku ^a   Chartier, Carole ^h   Paszat, Lawrence ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^e QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^f QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^g UNIVERSITY HEALTH NETWORK   (Canada)

^h SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN CANCER; BREAST CANCER; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COLORECTAL CANCER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM CANCER; DYING; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; GOVERNMENT; GYNECOLOGIC CANCER; HEAD AND NECK CANCER; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HOPE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; LEUKEMIA; LOWEST INCOME GROUP; LUNG CANCER; LYMPHOMA; MALE; MEDICAL LITERATURE; MELANOMA; NEOPLASM; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; OVARY CANCER; PHYSICIAN; POLICY; POPULATION; PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE; PROSTATE CANCER; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SARCOMA; SKIN CANCER; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 77950656824     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17156572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12927/hcpol.2013.21644     Document Type: Article

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