Dying at home or in hospital dependent on wealth, location and number of diseases

(King's College London) In a new study, published today in BMC Medicine, researchers from King's College London's Cicely Saunders Institute studied a national data set of all deaths from two common groups of respiratory diseases -- chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and interstitial pulmonary diseases, covering 380,232 people over 14 years.
Source: EurekAlert! - Social and Behavioral Science - Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news