Importance Better understanding of the emergency care needs of patients with cancer will
inform outpatient and emergency department (ED) management. Objective To provide a …

Background Hospitalisation during the last weeks of life when there is no medical need or
desire to be there is distressing and expensive. This study sought palliative care initiatives …

Objectives To examine access to palliative care between different disease trajectories and
compare to other geographic areas. Design A retrospective population-based decedent …

Context There has been surprisingly little attention to conceptual and methodological issues
that influence the measurement of discretionary utilization at the end of life (DIAL), an …

Background Few services are available to support rural older adults living at home with
advancing chronic illness. The objective of this project was to pilot a nurse-led navigation …

Background: There is growing interest in end-of-life care in cancer patients. We aim to
characterise health service use and costs in decedents with cancer history and examine …

Background People with advanced cancer frequently attend unscheduled care, but little is
known about the factors influencing presentations. Most research focuses on accident and …

Context Prior work using symptom burden to predict emergency department (ED) visits
among patients with cancer has used traditional statistical methods such as logistic …

Background: Prior work shows that palliative homecare services reduce the subsequent
need for hospitalizations and emergency services; however, no study has investigated …

Context Although community-based palliative care (CPC) is associated with decreased
acute care use in the lead up to death, it is unclear how the timing of CPC initiation affects …