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Costs of Cancer Care in the Last Five Days of Life in a Low-Resource Setting

2023-06-13

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<h4>Background: </h4> End-of-life care for patients with advanced cancer is costly. The palliative care unit tend to reduce the healthcare costs of these patients. This study aimed to compare palliative care unit costs with non-palliative care unit costs in cancer patients admitted to a university hospital. Methods We calculated the cost and number of services the patients received in the last five days of life i...

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Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

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Literature Corpus work: 37405574-13c5-5c26-bc44-a1152acd258f
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2965955/v1

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