Palliative and Supportive Care
Scientists at King's College London, King's College London report research in palliative and supportive care
Published in Cancer Weekly, January 4th, 2011
2011 JAN 4 -- New research, 'Is it possible to determine use of hospice palliative care services by matching hospice and cancer registry data,' is the subject of a report. "Population-based studies investigating access to palliative care often use death in a hospice as a proxy for service use. We linked data from a large South London hospice to Thames Cancer Registry (TCR) data to determine whether patients who received hospice services differed from those who did not," scientists in the United Kingdom report.
"We matched hospice data for 2474 cancer patients dying between 2000 and 2006, while resident within a restricted catchment area, to TCR data for...
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Source: Cancer Weekly (2011-01-04)
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