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SUBMITTER: Bajwah S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8428758 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Bajwah Sabrina S Oluyase Adejoke O AO Yi Deokhee D Gao Wei W Evans Catherine J CJ Grande Gunn G Todd Chris C Costantini Massimo M Murtagh Fliss E FE Higginson Irene J IJ
The Cochrane database of systematic reviews 20200930
<h4>Background</h4>Serious illness is often characterised by physical/psychological problems, family support needs, and high healthcare resource use. Hospital-based specialist palliative care (HSPC) has developed to assist in better meeting the needs of patients and their families and potentially reducing hospital care expenditure. There is a need for clarity on the effectiveness and optimal models of HSPC, given that most people still die in hospital and also to allocate scarce resources judici ...[more]