Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and lung cancer: access to palliative care, emergency room visits and hospital deaths
Abstract Background Despite the severe symptoms experienced by dying COPD patients, specialized palliative care (SPC) services focus mainly on cancer patients. We aimed to study the access to SPC that COPD and lung cancer (LC) patients receive and how that access affects the need for acute hospital...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2021-05-01
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| Series: | BMC Pulmonary Medicine |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12890-021-01533-3 |