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Home-based Palliative Care Should be Referred More

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A recent study done in Japan published in Cancer studied if there was a difference in survival time between cancer patients dying at home with palliative care compared to in hospital. The study compared adult patients with metastatic cancer who had either been admitted to palliative care, referred to hospital palliative care, (more…)

Canada’s End-Of-Life Care is More Hospital Centric

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The cost of end-of-life care among developed countries varies based on the policies implemented. This study compared site of death, health care utilization, and hospital expenditures in 7 developed countries (Belgium, Canada, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and the United States). To address the knowledge gap in cross-national end-of-life research, (more…)