Physician home visits to rostered patients during their last year of life: a retrospective cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Physician home visits are associated with better health outcomes, yet most patients near the end of life never receive such a visit. Our objectives were to describe the receipt of physician home visits during the last year of life after a referral to home care - an indication that the patient can no longer live independently - and to measure associations between patient characteristics and receipt of a home visit.

Methods

We conducted a retrospective cohort study using linked population-based health administrative databases housed at ICES. We identified adult (aged ≥ 18 yr) decedents in Ontario who died between Mar. 31, 2013, and Mar. 31, 2018, who were receiving primary care and were referred to publicly funded home care services. We described the provision of ph

SUBMITTER: Scott MM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10325583 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jul-Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature