End-Of-Life Care Costs In U.S. Comparable To Europe And CanadaCJ Arlotta
Health care costs in end-of-life and palliative care: the quest for ethical reform. J Soc Work End Life Palliat Care 2011; 7: 300-17. doi:10.1080/15524256.2011.623458Keith M. Swetz, Christopher M. Burkle, Keith H. Berge, William L. Lanier. (2014) Ten Common Questions (and Their ...
As part of the Health Care Use at the End-of-Life in Western Canada Study, the Western Office of the Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) collaborated with the ministries or departments of health in British Columbia, , Saskatchewan and Manitoba to characterize selected aspects of heal...
Health Care Costs in End-of-Life and Palliative Care: The Quest for Ethical Reform Health reform in the United States must address both access to medical services and universal insurance coverage, as well as health care cost containment. ......
In Canada, health system restructuring has led to a greater focus on home-based palliative care as an alternative to institutionalised palliative care. However, little is known about the effect of this change on end-of-life care costs and the extent to which the financial burden of care has...
Very little population-based research has been conducted on end-of-life cancer care in the Australian health care setting. The objective of this program is to undertake a series of observational studies examining resource use, costs and quality of end-of-life care in a cohort of elderly cancer...
The study objective was twofold: first, to provide an estimation of the current economic impact of caring for patients during their last year of life in England; and, second, to simulate the potential benefits of an expansion of those services by decreasing reliance on acute care during that ...
Health care costs are rising at an unsustainable rate in the United States. A high proportion of these costs occur in the last year of a person's life, and about half of these costs are incurred from inpatient medical services. There is concern that such a high proportion of these costs ...
In critically ill adult patients, do countries or regions allowing withdrawal of life-sustaining therapies (LSTs) after initiation differ from countries or regions not allowing LST withdrawal in: (1) the time to first LST limitation? and (2) patient and family satisfaction with care?
While there is increasing evidence that Advance Care Planning has the potential to strengthen patient autonomy and improve quality of care near the end of life, it remains unclear whether it could also reduce net costs of care. This study aims to describe the cost implications of Advance Care ...