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Did Ontario's End-of-Life Care Strategy Reduce Acute Care Service Use?

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By Hsien Seow, Lisa Barbera, Doris M. Howell, Sydney M. Dy
| Longwoods Publishing
Healthcare Quarterly 1(13) January 2010 : 93-100.doi:10.12927/hcq.2013.21620 Abstract The objective of this study was to evaluate whether Ontario's End-of-Life Care Strategy, which aimed to shift care from acute settings to the home, improved performance on quality indicators for end-of-life home care patients in use of more home care services and fewer acute care services.
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By Alison Emma Hunter-Smith, St Helens, Colleen A. Cuthbert, Lisa Barbera, Karen D Fergus, Doris M. Howell, Nathalie LeVasseur, Christine Simmons, Yuan Xu, Kelly A. Metcalfe, May Lynn Quan, Yvonne Efegoma, Susan Isherwood, Adena Scheer, Amirrtha Srikantham, Claire Temple-Orberle
| EJSO - European Journal of Surgical Oncology Verified
Introduction: Young women with breast cancer (YWBC) have unique needs compared to their older-age counterparts, due to life-stage at diagnosis; often yet to start a family, responsible for young children, and/or in the midst of career progression. Interventions to address this are limited. We aimed to understand the unmet needs of YWBC in order to develop a tailored self-management tool (SMT) to improve YWBC's experience and psychosocial-sexual wellbeing, long-term.
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Effect of Early Palliative Care on End-of-Life Health Care Costs: A Population-Based, Propensity Score-Matched Cohort Study

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By Hsien Seow, Lisa Barbera, Kimberlyn McGrail, Fred Burge
| ascopubs.org
Palliative care is an approach to care that focuses on improving quality of life and controlling physical and psychologic symptoms for patients with life-threatening illnesses and their families.1 Unfortunately, data show palliative care is often applied very late in the disease trajectory or not at all.
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