Association between palliative care and healthcare outcomes among adults with terminal non-cancer illness: population based matched cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To measure the associations between newly initiated palliative care in the last six months of life, healthcare use, and location of death in adults dying from non-cancer illness, and to compare these associations with those in adults who die from cancer at a population level.

Design

Population based matched cohort study.

Setting

Ontario, Canada between 2010 and 2015.

Participants

113 540 adults dying from cancer and non-cancer illness who were given newly initiated physician delivered palliative care in the last six months of life administered across all healthcare settings. Linked health administrative data were used to directly match patients on cause of death, hospital frailty risk score, presence of metastatic cancer, residential location (accordi

SUBMITTER: Quinn KL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7336238 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature