Abstract:Objectives
Cancer is a leading cause of death. At end-of-life healthcare utilisation and expenditure peak. Understanding care patterns and quantifying the likely benefits from service reconfigurations may influence rates of hospital admission and deaths.
Methods
Using prevalence-based retrospective data from the Northern Ireland General Registrar’s Office linked by cancer diagnosis to Patient Administration episode data for unscheduled-emergency-care (1stJanuary 2014 to 31st December 2015), we estimate unsche… Show more
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