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End-of-life care in general practice: A cross-sectional, retrospective survey of ‘cancer’, ‘organ failure’ and ‘old-age/dementia’ patients.
- Source :
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Palliative Medicine . Jul2014, Vol. 28 Issue 7, p965-975. 11p. 1 Diagram, 3 Charts, 2 Graphs. - Publication Year :
- 2014
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Abstract
- The article presents a study aimed to describe and evaluate the end-of-life care for Dutch patients who died from cancer, organ failure and old age or dementia by general practitioners. The study was conducted through a cross-sectional and a retrospective within a sentinel network of general practitioners. The results of the study reveal the need to integrate palliative care accompanied by optimal disease management.
- Subjects :
- *CANCER patients
*CHI-squared test
*CONFIDENCE intervals
*DEMENTIA
*FAMILY medicine
*FRAIL elderly
*HEART failure
*OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases
*PALLIATIVE treatment
*RESEARCH funding
*STATISTICS
*SURVEYS
*DATA analysis
*MULTIPLE regression analysis
*CROSS-sectional method
*RETROSPECTIVE studies
*DATA analysis software
*DESCRIPTIVE statistics
*ODDS ratio
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02692163
- Volume :
- 28
- Issue :
- 7
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Palliative Medicine
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 97190972
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/0269216314526271