Factors Associated with Home Versus Institutional Death Among Cancer Patients in Connecticut
- 1 June 2001
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 49 (6), 771-777
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1532-5415.2001.49154.x
Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To assess the relationships between home death and a set of demographic, disease‐related, and health‐resource factors among individuals who died of cancer. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study...Keywords
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