2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-842x.2006.tb00107.x
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In‐patient hospital use in the last years of life: a Western Australian population‐based study

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“…Recent literature on end‐of‐life health care costs has focused on the relative roles of age at death and imminence of death. Studies in the United Kingdom, 3 Switzerland 4 and Western Australia 5 concluded that proximity to death is a more important determinant of health care costs than age per se.…”
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“…Recent literature on end‐of‐life health care costs has focused on the relative roles of age at death and imminence of death. Studies in the United Kingdom, 3 Switzerland 4 and Western Australia 5 concluded that proximity to death is a more important determinant of health care costs than age per se.…”
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“…The inconsistency of our results with those reported earlier may be due to the causes of death chosen for our analysis. It may be that the causes of death we analysed were more likely to lead to hospitalisation rather than lead to admission to long-term care and less aggressive and less costly end-of life strategies [26]. Thus our results must be interpreted in light of the specifications of the cohort and should not be generalised to the in-patient cost associated with the 3 years prior to death in the general population.…”
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“…Batljan & Lagergren (2004) (Calver et al, 2006) mostram que os gastos com hospitalização para aqueles no último mês de vida são 38% maiores do que para aqueles no segundo mês.…”
Section: A Relação Entre Proximidade à Morte E Os Gastos Com Saúdeunclassified
“…Isso ocorre tanto por uma tendência decrescente do gasto per capita dos não sobreviventes com a idade quanto por um aumento no gasto per capita dos sobreviventes com a idade. Uma das explicações para a redução do gasto médio dos não sobreviventes em idades mais avançadas é que há uma resistência por parte dos médicos em tratar a saúde desses pacientes da mesma forma como tratariam os mais jovens com os mesmos sintomas, em virtude da fragilidade do organismo dos idosos (Cutler & Sheiner, 1998;Breyer & Felder, 2006;Calver et al, 2006).…”
Section: A Relação Entre Proximidade à Morte E Os Gastos Com Saúdeunclassified