Trend of urban-rural disparities in hospice utilization in Taiwan.

AIMS: The palliative care has spread rapidly worldwide in the recent two decades. The development of hospice services in rural areas usually lags behind that in urban areas. The aim of our study was to investigate whether the urban-rural disparity widens in a country with a hospital-based hospice sy...

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Main Authors: Yi-Hsuan Lin, Yi-Chun Chen, Yen-Han Tseng, Ming-Hwai Lin, Shinn-Jang Hwang, Tzeng-Ji Chen, Li-Fang Chou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3637250?pdf=render