Differences in Health Care Utilization at the End of Life Among Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Patients With Lung Cancer | Zendy

David H. Au | Zendy; Edmunds M. Udris | Zendy; Stephan D. Fihn | Zendy; Mary B. McDonell | Zendy; J. Randall Curtis | Zendy

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Differences in Health Care Utilization at the End of Life Among Patients With Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Patients With Lung Cancer

Author(s) -

David H. Au,

Edmunds M. Udris,

Stephan D. Fihn,

Mary B. McDonell,

J. Randall Curtis

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

archives of internal medicine

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

eISSN - 1538-3679

pISSN - 0003-9926

DOI - 10.1001/archinte.166.3.326

Subject(s) - medicine , copd , lung cancer , retrospective cohort study , intensive care unit , medical prescription , palliative care , cohort , odds ratio , intensive care medicine , cohort study , cancer , emergency medicine , nursing

We sought to examine health care resource utilization in the last 6 months of life among patients who died with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) compared with those who died with lung cancer and to examine geographic variations in care.

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