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- Title
End-of-life care in general practice: A cross-sectional, retrospective survey of ‘cancer’, ‘organ failure’ and ‘old-age/dementia’ patients.
- Authors
Evans, Natalie; Pasman, H Roeline W; Donker, Gé A; Deliens, Luc; Van den Block, Lieve; Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Bregje
- Abstract
The article presents a study aimed to describe and evaluate the end-of-life care for Dutch patients who died from cancer, organ failure and old age or dementia by general practitioners. The study was conducted through a cross-sectional and a retrospective within a sentinel network of general practitioners. The results of the study reveal the need to integrate palliative care accompanied by optimal disease management.
- Subjects
NETHERLANDS; CANCER patients; CHI-squared test; CONFIDENCE intervals; DEMENTIA; FAMILY medicine; FRAIL elderly; HEART failure; OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases; PALLIATIVE treatment; RESEARCH funding; STATISTICS; SURVEYS; DATA analysis; MULTIPLE regression analysis; CROSS-sectional method; RETROSPECTIVE studies; DATA analysis software; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; ODDS ratio
- Publication
Palliative Medicine, 2014, Vol 28, Issue 7, p965
- ISSN
0269-2163
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/0269216314526271