Understanding hospital admissions close to the end of life (ACE) study

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Morris, Zoë Slote ^a   Fyfe, Miranda ^b   Momen, Natalie ^a   Hoare, Sarah ^a   Barclay, Stephen ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NHS Cambridgeshire   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behaviour change; End of life care; Ethics; Framework analysis; Inappropriate admissions; Mixed methods; Palliative care; Place of death; Social marketing; Vignettes

Indexed keywords

ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME; AGED; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; ETHICS; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; METHODOLOGY; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUESTIONNAIRE; RURAL HEALTH CARE; STATISTICS; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM; VERY ELDERLY;

ACUTE CHEST SYNDROME; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEMENTIA; ENGLAND; FOCUS GROUPS; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES MISUSE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; NEOPLASMS; ORGANIZATIONAL CASE STUDIES; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT ADMISSION; QUALITATIVE RESEARCH; QUALITY ASSURANCE, HEALTH CARE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RURAL HEALTH SERVICES; TERMINAL CARE; URBAN HEALTH SERVICES;

EID: 84874695790     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-89     Document Type: Article

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