Inpatient Palliative Care: A nationwide analysis

Health Policy

Volumn 109, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 311-318

  Gaertner, Jan ^a,b   Drabik, Anna ^a   Marschall, Ursula ^c   Schlesiger, Grit ^a   Voltz, Raymond ^a,b   Stock, Stephanie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^c BARMER GEK Sickness Fund   (Germany)

Author keywords

Cancer; Costs; End of life; Palliative medicine; Propensity score matching

Indexed keywords

ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; OPIATE;

ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; AGGRESSIVENESS; ANOREXIA; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL FEEDING; CACHEXIA; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER CONTROL; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER PAIN; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; CANCER PATIENT; CANCER SURGERY; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DRUG COST; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HOSPITAL CARE; HOSPITAL COST; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; PATIENT DECISION MAKING; PRESCRIPTION; SYMPTOM; TERMINAL CARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84874333715     PISSN: 01688510     EISSN: 18726054     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.07.009     Document Type: Article

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