The effect of community-based specialist palliative care teams on place of care

Journal of Palliative Medicine

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 16-21

  Seow, Hsien ^a   Dhaliwal, Gagan ^b   Fassbender, Konrad ^c   Rangrej, Jagadish ^d   Brazil, Kevin ^e   Fainsinger, Robin ^c  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^d INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^e QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER PALLIATIVE THERAPY; COHORT ANALYSIS; COMMUNITY CARE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMERGENCY CARE; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH SERVICE; HOME CARE; HOSPITAL BED; HOSPITAL CARE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NEOPLASM; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; TERMINAL CARE; DEMOGRAPHY; MIDDLE AGED; NURSING; ONTARIO; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COHORT STUDIES; COMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES; FEMALE; HOME CARE SERVICES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASMS; ONTARIO; PALLIATIVE CARE; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TERMINAL CARE;

EID: 84952930743     PISSN: 10966218     EISSN: 15577740     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/jpm.2015.0063     Document Type: Article

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