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What proportion of patients at the end of life contact out-of-hours primary care? A data linkage study in Oxfordshire

1 Apr 2018

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OBJECTIVES: Out-of-hours (OOH) primary care services are a key element of community care at the end of life, yet there have been no previous attempts to describe the scope of this activity. We aimed to establish the proportion of Oxfordshire patients who were seen by the OOH service within the last 30 days of life, whether they were documented in a palliative phase of care and the demographic and clinical...

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PMID: 29712691
DOI: 10.1136/bmjopen-2017-020244

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