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Hospital at home: home-based end of life care.
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BACKGROUND: The policy in a number of countries is to provide people with a terminal illness the choice of dying at home. This policy is supported by surveys indicating that the general public and patients with a terminal illness would prefer to receive end of life care at home. OBJECTIVES: To determine if providing home-based end of life care reduces the likelihood of dying in hospital and what effect this has on patients' symptoms, quality of life, health service costs and care givers compa...
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- 10.1002/14651858.cd009231
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- Journal:
- The Cochrane database of systematic reviews
- Issue:
- 7
- Pages:
- CD009231
- Publication date:
- 2011-01-01
- DOI:
- EISSN:
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1469-493X
- ISSN:
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1469-493X
- URN:
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uuid:94e74e27-164a-4020-9a03-f2f86629cb4f
- Source identifiers:
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164000
- Local pid:
- pubs:164000
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- English
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- Copyright date:
- 2011
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