Community-based palliative care is associated with reduced emergency department use by people with dementia in their last year of life: A retrospective cohort study

Palliative Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 727-736

  Rosenwax, Lorna ^a   Spilsbury, Katrina ^a   Arendts, Glenn ^b,c   McNamara, Bev ^a   Semmens, James ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^c ROYAL PERTH HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

dementia; emergency service; follow up studies; hospital; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE; DEMENTIA; DIFFUSE LEWY BODY DISEASE; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; FRONTOTEMPORAL DEMENTIA; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HIV ASSOCIATED DEMENTIA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIINFARCT DEMENTIA; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PARKINSON DISEASE; PATIENT CARE; POPULATION RESEARCH; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK REDUCTION; SEX RATIO; TERMINAL CARE; VERY ELDERLY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL EMERGENCY SERVICE; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UTILIZATION; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; DEMENTIA; EMERGENCY SERVICE, HOSPITAL; FEMALE; HEALTH SERVICES NEEDS AND DEMAND; HOSPITAL MORTALITY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PALLIATIVE CARE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84939551797     PISSN: 02692163     EISSN: 1477030X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269216315576309     Document Type: Article

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