Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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1048683 | Health & Place | 2010 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Place of death is an important societal indicator of end-of-life quality for the terminally ill. Using death certificate data, we examined metropolitan/non-metropolitan variation in place of death of patients with life-limiting conditions in Belgium, The Netherlands and England. Metropolitan patients were less likely to die at home and, in England, less likely to die in care homes, than non-metropolitan terminally ill. We found a lesser degree of social support and lower availability of care home beds as partial explanations of the metropolitan/non-metropolitan discrepancy. These findings warrant specific approaches to end-of-life care in metropolitan areas.
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Authors
Dirk Houttekier, Joachim Cohen, Johan Bilsen, Julia Addington-Hall, Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, Luc Deliens,