Journal article
End-of-Life Cancer Care: Temporal Association between Homecare Nursing and Hospitalizations
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: Most cancer patients want to die at home, but scaleable models to achieve this are not well researched. Our objective was to investigate the temporal association of homecare nursing, especially by generalist nurses, with reduced end-of-life hospitalizations.
METHODS: We conducted a retrospective Canadian cohort study of end-of-life cancer decedents during 2004-2009 in Ontario (ON), Nova Scotia (NS), and British Columbia (BC), which …
Authors
Seow H; Sutradhar R; McGrail K; Fassbender K; Pataky R; Lawson B; Sussman J; Burge F; Barbera L
Journal
Journal of Palliative Medicine, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 263–270
Publisher
Mary Ann Liebert
Publication Date
3 2016
DOI
10.1089/jpm.2015.0229
ISSN
1096-6218