Comparison of medical outcomes and health care costs at the end of life between dialysis patients with and without cancer: a national population-based study
Abstract Background Palliative care has improved the quality of end-of-life (EOL) care and lowered the health care cost of cancer, and these benefits should be extended to patients with other serious illnesses including end-stage kidney disease. We evaluated the quality of EOL care, survival probabi...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-07-01
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| Series: | BMC Nephrology |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12882-019-1440-9 |