Who Are Hospice Patients and What Care Is Provided in Hospices? A Pilot Study.

CONCLUSION: Collecting HPRs is difficult and time-consuming. Specifically, data from separate records of home care nurses and general practitioners were difficult to come by. Patient and care characteristics were alternately present, which led to an extension of data collection in HPRs to 3 time periods. Piloting is essential to adjust study procedures and outcome measures to ensure a feasible national multicenter hospice study.
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Source: The American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Care - December 12, 2019 Category: Palliative Care Authors: Koorn RM, van Klinken M, de Graaf E, Bressers REGW, Jobse AP, van der Baan F, Teunissen SCCM Tags: Am J Hosp Palliat Care Source Type: research