Is there a need for weekend face-to-face inpatient assessments by hospital specialist palliative care services? Evaluation of an out-of-hours service

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 278-283

  Birks, Theodore ^a   Krikos, Dimitrios ^b   McGowan, Catherine ^b   Stone, Patrick ^a  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b St George's NHS Trust   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

After hours care; hospice care; hospitals; inpatients; palliative care; terminal care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FACE TO FACE ASSESSMENT; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INFORMATION SERVICE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; OUT OF HOUR SERVICE; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TELECONSULTATION;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPICE CARE; HOSPITALISTS; HUMANS; MALE; PALLIATIVE CARE; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 79954544009     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216310397568     Document Type: Article

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