Wednesday, 18 May 2016

Hospital at home: home-based end-of-life care

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Online Publication Date: February 2016 
Sasha Shepperd, Daniela C Gonçalves-Bradley, Sharon E Straus, Bee Wee

The evidence included in this review supports the use of home-based end-of-life care programmes for increasing the number of people who will die at home, although the numbers of people admitted to hospital while receiving end-of-life care should be monitored. Future research should systematically assess the impact of home-based end-of-life care on caregivers.

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