Prevalence and timing of specialist palliative care access among advanced cancer patients and association with hospital death

Proceedings of Singapore Healthcare

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Grace Meijuan Yang¹  Cindy Lim⁴  Qingyuan Zhuang¹  Wah Ying Ong¹ 

[1] Division of Supportive and Palliative Care, National Cancer Centre Singapore;Lien Centre for Palliative Care, Duke-NUS Medical School;Department of General Medicine, Sengkang General Hospital;Biostatistics and Epidemiology Unit, National Cancer Centre Singapore

关键词: palliative care;    neoplasms;    retrospective studies;    delivery of health care;    Singapore;   

DOI  :  10.1177/20101058211055279

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Sage Journals

【 摘 要 】

Background Patients with advanced cancer have poor quality of life and high utilisation of acute healthcare services. Early access to palliative care has been shown to improve quality of life as well as reduce acute healthcare utilisation and costs.

【 授权许可】

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