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Unplanned hospital admissions of palliative care patients: a great challenge for internal and emergency medicine physicians

Authors: Paolo Cotogni, Anna De Luca, Andrea Saini, Luca Brazzi

Published in: Internal and Emergency Medicine | Issue 5/2017

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The symptom burden that advanced cancer patients experience in the last months of their lives often leads them to Emergency Department (ED) care [1, 2]. Frequently, the care that these patients receive during their last 6–12 months of life is more aimed at prolonging their lives, repeatedly admitting them to hospital and even to an intensive care unit (ICU) rather than to palliate their symptoms [3, 4]. …

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Title: Unplanned hospital admissions of palliative care patients: a great challenge for internal and emergency medicine physicians
Authors: Paolo Cotogni
Anna De Luca
Andrea Saini
Luca Brazzi
Publication date: 01-08-2017
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Published in: Internal and Emergency Medicine / Issue 5/2017
Print ISSN: 1828-0447
Electronic ISSN: 1970-9366
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11739-017-1671-3

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