Costs of terminal patients who receive palliative care or usual care in different hospital wards

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 13, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1365-1369

  Simoens, Steven ^a   Kutten, Betty ^b   Keirse, Emmanuel ^a,c   Berghe, Paul Vanden ^c   Beguin, Claire ^d   Desmedt, Marianne ^d   Deveugele, Myriam ^e   Léonard, Christian ^f   Paulus, Dominique ^f   Menten, Johan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c Federation of Palliative Care Flanders ^*  (Belgium)

^d UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^e GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^f BELGIAN HEALTH CARE KNOWLEDGE CENTRE KCE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BELGIUM; COHORT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HOSPITAL; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDICAL FEE; MEDICAL STAFF; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; WARD;

BELGIUM; COHORT STUDIES; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENTS; HUMANS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 78649377424     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2010.0212     Document Type: Article

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