Hospital at home: home-based end-of-life care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The policy in a number of countries is to provide people with a terminal illness the choice of dying at home. This policy is supported by surveys indicating that the general public and people with a terminal illness would prefer to receive end-of-life care at home. This is the fourth update of the original review.

Objectives

To determine if providing home-based end-of-life care reduces the likelihood of dying in hospital and what effect this has on patients' symptoms, quality of life, health service costs, and caregivers, compared with inpatient hospital or hospice care.

Search methods

We searched the following databases until April 2015: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL) (the Cochrane Library), Ovid MEDLINE(R) (from 1950), EMBASE (fr

SUBMITTER: Shepperd S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7111432 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature