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Hospital Utilization Study Reveals where Dying People across Canada Get Their End-of-life Care
Objectives
*- learn about place of death, and trends in place of death - learn about the people who are dying in hospital now, and what care they receive in hospital - gain awareness that most deaths and end-of-life care processes occur outside of hospitals, and the implications of this.
Brief Abstract
The findings of a study on the use of hospitals across Canada by people who died in hospital, including how often they were admitted to hospital over their last year of life, will be presented. This study establishes that most deaths and most end-of-life processes take place outside of hospital now. There is an urgent need for enhanced community-based end-of-life care to enable more people to avoid hospitals when dying and to support non-hospital dying.
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