Comparison of terminally ill cancer-vs. non-cancer patients in specialized palliative home care in Germany-A single service analysis

BMC Palliative Care

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2015, Pages

  Stiel, Stephanie ^a   Heckel, Maria ^a   Seifert, Andreas ^c   Frauendorf, Tobias ^a   Hanke, Roland Martin ^b   Ostgathe, Christoph ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b Palliative Care Team (PCT) Team   (Germany)

^c LEUPHANA UNIVERSITY OF LÜNEBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Home care; Non cancer; Non malignant; Palliative care; Spezialisierte ambulante palliativversorgung

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALERTNESS; ARTICLE; CANCER PATIENT; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; COMORBIDITY; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFECATION; DEMENTIA; ELDERLY CARE; FEMALE; GERMANY; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE NEED; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL READMISSION; HUMAN; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MARRIAGE; MICTURITION; MORTALITY; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NON CANCER PATIENT; NURSING CARE NEED; NURSING HOME; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEX RATIO; SOCIAL SUPPORT; SPECIALIZED PALLIATIVE HOME CARE; SURVIVAL RATE; TERMINALLY ILL PATIENT; TREND STUDY; WIDOW; AGE; DEMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; GERMANY; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; PALLIATIVE CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SEX FACTORS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TERMINALLY ILL;

EID: 84937806085     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1472684X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/s12904-015-0033-z     Document Type: Article

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