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摘要: CLINICAL QUESTION: Are home palliative care services associated with benefits to patients with advanced illness and family caregivers, and are they cost-effective?关键词: palliative care family caregivers costs and benefits DOI: 10.1001/jama.2014.553 被引量: 29 ...
A palliative care consultation team reduced the cost of care for New York Medicaid beneficiaries by $6,000 per patient (Summaryhereand full articlehere). The theory is that, by defining people's wishes early on in the hospital stay, you can avoid interventions that they do not want; for e...
Palliative care aims to relieve suffering, be it physical, emotional, social or spiritual. Unlike hospice, palliative care is not limited to the last six months of life. Nor must palliative care patients be considered terminally ill: they often continue to receive disease-modifying treatments along...
Significant gaps in the evidence base on costs in rural communities in Canada and elsewhere are reported in the literature, particularly regarding costs to families. However, it remains unclear whether the costs related to all resources used by palliative care patients in rural areas differ to those...
Palliative care treatment patterns and associated costs of healthcare resource use for specific advanced cancer patients in the UK The purpose of this paper is to identify the treatment patterns and corresponding costs of healthcare resource use associated with palliative care for diff... JF Guest,...
The integration of SPC is said to increase patients’ QoL, reduce patient and family distress and the aggressiveness of care and health care costs, and may even prolong life [3, 27, 28]. We used the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic review and Meta-Analysis Protocols (PRISMA-P) 2015...
Researchers have discovered that recent increases in Medicare spending on outpatient end-of-life cancer care may have been driven almost entirely by costs associated with immunotherapy, which is given to fewer than one in five patients, according to a new study published by Mantz et al in the....
Bundjalung man David Follent, Chair of theNational Association of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and Practitioners(NAATSIHWP) said ‘the timing of this milestone couldn’t be more perfect, with the sector gathering for theNAATSIHWP Conferenceon Whadjuk Noongar Boodjar count...
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...