Place of death and health care utilization for people in the last 6 months of life in Switzerland: A retrospective analysis using administrative data

BMC Health Services Research

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Reich, Oliver ^a,b   Signorell, Andri ^a   Busato, André ^c,d  

^a Helsana Group   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY FOR HEALTH SCIENCES   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

End of life; Health care utilization; Place of death; Switzerland

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; DEMOGRAPHY; ECONOMICS; FACTUAL DATABASE; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HUMAN; MALE; NURSING HOME; PATIENT PREFERENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; STATISTICAL MODEL; SWITZERLAND; TERMINAL CARE; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DATABASES, FACTUAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; NURSING HOMES; PATIENT PREFERENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX DISTRIBUTION; SWITZERLAND; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84875335641     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14726963     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-13-116     Document Type: Article

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