Duration and determinants of hospice-based specialist palliative care. A national retrospective cohort study - a podcast by SAGE Publications Ltd.

This episode features Matthew Allsop (St Gemma’s Academic Unit of Palliative Care, Leeds Institute of Health Sciences, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK). This retrospective cohort study aimed to identify patient and organisational factors that influence the duration of hospice-based palliative care in the United Kingdom prior to death.

The results of this study found that despite increasing rhetoric around early referral, patients with advanced disease are receiving referrals to hospice specialist palliative care very late in their illness trajectory. Age and diagnosis persist as determinants of duration of hospice specialist palliative care before death.

Full paper available from: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0269216318781417

If you would like to record a podcast about your published (or accepted) Palliative Medicine paper, please contact Dr Amara Nwosu: anwosu@liverpool.ac.uk

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