Actual and Preferred Place of Death of Home-Dwelling Patients in Four European Countries: Making Sense of Quality Indicators

L. De Roo, Maaike; Miccinesi, Guido; D. Onwuteaka‐Philipsen, Bregje; Van Den Noortgate, Nele; Van den Block, Lieve; Bonacchi, Andrea; Donker, Gé; Eugenio Lozano Alonso, José; Moreels, Sarah; Deliëns, Luc; L. Francke, Anneke; on behalf of EURO IMPACT, and

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0093762

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Actual and Preferred Place of Death of Home-Dwelling Patients in Four European Countries: Making Sense of Quality Indicators

Published in PLoS ONE • Apr 8, 2014

Authors:

Maaike L. De Roo

Guido Miccinesi

Bregje D. Onwuteaka‐Philipsen

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Dying at home and dying at the preferred place of death are advocated to be desirable outcomes of palliative care. More insight is needed in their usefulness as quality indicators. Our objective is to describe whether "the percentage of patients dying at home" and "the percentage of pati...

Subject

Place of death

Medicine

Palliative care

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