Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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5881324 | Journal of Pain and Symptom Management | 2015 | 8 Pages |
Abstract
Taiwanese pediatric cancer patients predominantly died in an acute care hospital with a slightly increasing trend of shifting place of death from home to hospital. Propensity for hospital death was determined by residential urbanization level, diagnosis, primary physician's specialty, and the primary hospital's characteristics and health care resources. Clinical interventions and health policies should ensure that resources are allocated to allow pediatric cancer patients to die in the place they and their parents prefer to achieve a good death and promote their parents' bereavement adjustment.
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Authors
Yen-Ni PhD, Tsang-Wu MD, Siew Tzuh DNSc,