How End-Of-Life Home Care Services Are Used from Admission to Death: A Population-Based Cohort Study

Abstract

AIM: Our goal was to describe the trajectories of end-of-life nursing and personal support worker (PSW) use from home care admission until death. METHODS: We studied a historical prospective cohort of end-of-life home care patients in Ontario, Canada, linking administrative databases. We calculated the odds of using any nursing or PSW hours and the incidence rate ratio of services used for each week approaching death, controlling for …