Inpatient Palliative Care: A nationwide analysis

Jan Gaertner, Anna Drabik, Ursula Marschall, Grit Schlesiger, Raymond Voltz and Stephanie Stock

Health Policy, 2013, vol. 109, issue 3, 311-318

Abstract: The implementation of palliative care (PC) is an important challenge for health policy makers. The primary aim of this study was to analyze the effects of inpatient PC for cancer patients in the last six months of life.

Keywords: Palliative medicine; Costs; End-of-life; Cancer; Propensity score matching (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2012.07.009

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