Discharge to home from a palliative care unit: impact on survival and factors associated with home death after the discharge: a cohort study

Abstract Background Staying at home during the dying process is important for many patients; and palliative care units (PCUs) can help facilitate home death. This study compared patient survival between those who were discharged to home from a palliative care unit and those who were not, and aimed t...

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Main Authors: Nozomu Murakami, Shinya Kajiura, Kouichi Tanabe, Kenichiro Tsukada, Kazuhiko Shibata, Yoshio Minabe, Tatsuya Morita, Ryuji Hayashi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2023-11-01
Series:BMC Palliative Care
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-023-01314-1