End-of-life hospital referrals by out-of-hours general practitioners: A retrospective chart study

BMC Family Practice

Volumn 13, Issue , 2012, Pages

  De Korte Verhoef, Maria C ^a   Pasman, H Roeline W ^a   Schweitzer, Bart Pm ^a   Francke, Anneke L ^a,b   Onwuteaka Philipsen, Bregje D ^a   Deliens, Luc ^a,c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^c VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Cancer; General Practice; Hospital Referral; Out of Hours; Palliative Care; Primary Care; Symptoms

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITAL; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASM; NETHERLANDS; NURSING CARE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; VERY ELDERLY;

AFTER-HOURS CARE; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GENERAL PRACTICE; HEART FAILURE; HOSPITALS; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEOPLASMS; NETHERLANDS; NURSING CARE; PALLIATIVE CARE; PHYSICIAN'S PRACTICE PATTERNS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 84865177272     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712296     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2296-13-89     Document Type: Article

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