Hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life: A baseline for future modifications to end-of-life care

Medical Journal of Australia

Volumn 194, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 570-573

  Rosenwax, Lorna K ^a   McNamara, Beverley A ^a   Murray, Kevin ^b   McCabe, Rebecca J ^a   Aoun, Samar M ^a   Currow, David C ^c  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC LIVER FAILURE; CHRONIC OBSTRUCTIVE LUNG DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL DEPARTMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTION; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MOTOR NEURON DISEASE; NEOPLASM; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARKINSON DISEASE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TERMINAL CARE; TERMINAL DISEASE; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE;

EID: 79958776979     PISSN: 0025729X     EISSN: 13265377     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03106.x     Document Type: Article

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