Hospitalisations at the end of life: using a sentinel surveillance network to study hospital use and associated patient, disease and healthcare factors

• Main Authors: Bilsen Johan (Author), Bauwens Sabien (Author), Drieskens Katrien (Author), Deschepper Reginald (Author), Van den Block Lieve (Author), Bossuyt Nathalie (Author), Deliens Luc (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: BMC, 2007-05-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Hospital deaths following several hospital admissions or long hospital stays may be indicative of a low quality of dying. Although place of death has been extensively investigated at population level, hospital use in the last months...