Death at no cost? Persons with no health insurance claims in the last year of life in Switzerland

• Main Authors: Radoslaw Panczak (Author), Viktor von Wyl (Author), Oliver Reich (Author), Xhyljeta Luta (Author), Maud Maessen (Author), Andreas E. Stuck (Author), Claudia Berlin (Author), Kurt Schmidlin (Author), David C. Goodman (Author), Matthias Egger (Author), Kerri Clough-Gorr (Author), Marcel Zwahlen (Author)
• Formato: Livro
• Publicado em: BMC, 2018-03-01T00:00:00Z.
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Abstract Background Lack of health insurance claims (HIC) in the last year of life might indicate suboptimal end-of-life care, but reasons for no HIC are not fully understood because information on causes of death is often missing. We investigated association of no HIC with characteristics of indivi...