Healthcare utilisation trajectories in patients dying from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, heart failure or cancer: a nationwide register-based cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To investigate illness trajectories as reflected by healthcare utilisation, including hospital and intensive care unit admissions, consultations in general practice and home care provision, before death comparing people dying from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failure and cancer.

Design

Nationwide register-based cohort study.

Setting

Data on all hospital admissions, including intensive care unit admissions, consultations in general practice and home care provision were obtained from nationwide Danish registries.

Participants

All adult decedents in Denmark dying from COPD, heart failure or cancer between 2006 and 2016.

Outcome measures

For each day within 5 years before death, we computed a daily prevalence proportion (PP)

SUBMITTER: Vestergaard AHS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8614146 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature