Socioeconomic position and use of healthcare in the last year of life: a systematic review and meta-analysis

JM Davies, KE Sleeman, J Leniz, R Wilson… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Background Low socioeconomic position (SEP) is recognized as a risk factor for worse
health outcomes. How socioeconomic factors influence end-of-life care, and the magnitude …

Impact of home-based palliative care on health care costs and hospital use: a systematic review

V Gonzalez-Jaramillo, V Fuhrer… - Palliative & Supportive …, 2021 - cambridge.org
ObjectiveTo assess the effectiveness of home-based palliative care (HBPC) on reducing
hospital visits and whether HBPC lowered health care cost. MethodWe searched six …

[HTML][HTML] Machine learning-based demand forecasting in cancer palliative care home hospitalization

M Soltani, M Farahmand, AR Pourghaderi - Journal of Biomedical …, 2022 - Elsevier
Objective To develop an effective Management Information System (MIS) that is empowered
by predictive models that can forecast the demand of end-stage cancer home hospitalized …

Effectiveness of palliative home-care services in reducing hospital admissions and determinants of hospitalization for terminally ill patients followed up by a palliative …

M Riolfi, A Buja, C Zanardo, CF Marangon… - Palliative …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: It has been demonstrated that most patients in the terminal stages of cancer
would benefit from palliative home-care services. Aim: The aim of this study was to assess …

Measuring intensity of end of life care: a systematic review

X Luta, M Maessen, M Egger, AE Stuck, D Goodman… - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Many studies have measured the intensity of end of life care. However, no
summary of the measures used in the field is currently available. Objectives To summarise …

Caregivers' experiences of end‐of‐life caregiving to severely ill relatives with cancer dying at home: A qualitative study in the Faroe Islands

EJD Johannesen, H Timm… - Scandinavian journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Background and Aim It is common among people with advanced cancer to wish to
die at home, but only a few succeed in doing so. The willingness of family members to care …

Palliative care in patients with haematological neoplasms: an integrative systematic review

D Moreno-Alonso, J Porta-Sales… - Palliative …, 2018 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Palliative care was originally intended for patients with non-haematological
neoplasms and relatively few studies have assessed palliative care in patients with …

Opportunities for palliative care in public health

L De Lima, T Pastrana - Annual review of public health, 2016 - annualreviews.org
In May 2014, the World Health Assembly, of the World Health Organization (WHO),
unanimously adopted a palliative care (PC) resolution, which outlines clear …

Home hospitalization for palliative cancer care: factors associated with unplanned hospital admissions and death in hospital

V Gamblin, C Prod'homme, A Lecoeuvre, AM Bimbai… - BMC Palliative Care, 2021 - Springer
Background Home hospitalization at the end of life can sometimes be perturbed by
unplanned hospital admissions (UHAs, defined as any admission that is not part of a …

Perspectives of bereaved relatives of patients with haematological malignancies concerning preferred place of care and death: a qualitative study

D McCaughan, E Roman, AG Smith… - Palliative …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: People with haematological malignancies have different end-of-life care
patterns from those with other cancers and are more likely to die in hospital. Little is known …