Effect of a home-based end-of-life nursing service on hospital use at the end of life and place of death: A study using administrative data and matched controls

BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 422-430

  Chitnis, X A ^a   Georghiou, T ^a   Steventon, A ^a   Bardsley, M J ^a  

^a Health Education England   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST CONTROL; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FEMALE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION; UTILIZATION REVIEW; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH NURSING; COST SAVINGS; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HISTORICALLY CONTROLLED STUDY; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PATIENT ADMISSION; TERMINAL CARE; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 84883572203     PISSN: 2045435X     EISSN: 20454368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2012-000424     Document Type: Article

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