Impact of the Marie Curie Cancer Care Delivering Choice Programme in Somerset and North Somerset on place of death and hospital usage: A retrospective cohort study

BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 34-39

  Purdy, Sarah ^a   Lasseter, Gemma ^a   Griffin, Thomas ^a   Wye, Lesley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGED; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EMERGENCY HEALTH SERVICE; EVALUATION STUDY; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATOR; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; MALE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PROCEDURES; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; TERMINAL CARE; UNITED KINGDOM; UTILIZATION; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ATTITUDE TO DEATH; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; ENGLAND; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; PATIENT PREFERENCE; PROGRAM EVALUATION; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84905239400     PISSN: 2045435X     EISSN: 20454368     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmjspcare-2013-000645     Document Type: Article

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