The association between varying levels of palliative care involvement on costs during terminal hospitalizations in Canada from 2012 to 2015
Abstract Background Inpatient palliative care is associated with lower inpatient costs; however, this has yet to be studied using a more nuanced, multi-tiered measure of inpatient palliative care and a national population-representative dataset. Using a population-based cohort of Canadians who died...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-04-01
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Series: | BMC Health Services Research |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-021-06335-1 |