Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life

2009896 citationsJournal Articlegreen Open Access

Authors

Baohui Zhang · European Association for Palliative Care

Alexi A. Wright

Haiden A. Huskamp

Matthew Nilsson

Matthew L. Maciejewski

Abstract

Patients with advanced cancer who reported having EOL conversations with physicians had significantly lower health care costs in their final week of life. Higher costs were associated with worse quality of death.

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Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Publication Details

Published in: Archives of Internal Medicine

Volume 169, Issue 5, pp. 480-480

DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2008.587

Field-Weighted Citation Impact: 48.17

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Health Care Costs in the Last Week of Life

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