End-of-life hospital costs in cancer patients: Do advance directives or routes of hospital admission make a difference?

Oncology

Volumn 80, Issue 1-2, 2011, Pages 118-122

  Tan, Tow S ^a   Jatoi, Aminah ^a  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

Cancer; Cost; End of life; Hospitalization

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PATIENT; CONSULTATION; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HOSPICE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HOSPITALIZATION; HOSPITALIZATION COST; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTUBATION; LIVING WILL; MALE; OUTPATIENT; PATIENT TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESUSCITATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOLID TUMOR; TELEPHONE; TERMINAL CARE;

ADULT; ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HOSPITAL COSTS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MINNESOTA; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADMISSION; TERMINAL CARE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 79958768587     PISSN: 00302414     EISSN: 14230232     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000328279     Document Type: Article

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