Differences in medical costs for end-of-life patients receiving traditional care and those receiving hospice care: A retrospective study

Hospice care has a positive effect on medical costs. The correlation between survival time after receiving hospice care and medical costs has not been previously investigated in the literature on Taiwan. This study aimed to compare the differences in medical costs between traditional care and hospic...

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Veröffentlicht in:	PloS one 2020-02, Vol.15 (2), p.e0229176-e0229176
Hauptverfasser:	Huang, Ya-Ting, Wang, Ying-Wei, Chi, Chou-Wen, Hu, Wen-Yu, Lin, Jr, Rung, Shiao, Chih-Chung, Tang, Woung-Ru
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Aged Ambulatory care facilities Analysis Cancer Cardiopulmonary resuscitation Chemotherapy Chronic illnesses Community colleges Comorbidity Cost analysis Costs Death Disease Economic aspects Emergency medical care Emergency medical services Female Health Health care costs Health Care Costs - statistics & numerical data Health insurance Hemodialysis Hospice care Hospice Care - economics Hospices Hospitalization Hospitals Humans Male Medical diagnosis Medical economics Medical schools Medicine Medicine and Health Sciences National health insurance Nursing Palliative care Patients People and Places Resuscitation Retrospective Studies Social Sciences Studies Surgery Survival Terminal Care - economics Terminally Ill - statistics & numerical data Time Traditional medicine
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