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

ABSTRACT:

Background

The policy several countries is to provide people with a terminal illness the choice of dying at home; this is supported by surveys that indicate that the general public and people with a terminal illness would prefer to receive end-of-life care at home. This is the fifth 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 CENTRAL, Ovid MEDLINE(R), Embase, CINAHL, and clinical trials registries to 18 March 2020. We checked the reference lists of systematic reviews. For included studies, we checke

SUBMITTER: Shepperd S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8092626 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature