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20709712

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
8
pubmed:dateCreated
2010-12-8
pubmed:abstractText
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. We matched hospice data for 2474 cancer patients dying between 2000 and 2006, while resident within a restricted catchment area, to TCR data for residents in this area. During matching 14.2% (n = 352) of hospice patients were excluded due to differing key dates or addresses. In addition, 5.6% (n= 175) of residents initially defined as not receiving hospice services were recorded as dying in a hospice in the TCR dataset. The problems of overlapping catchment areas and of defining patients receiving services meant we could not adequately determine use of hospice services. This method might be applied more successfully to non-urban hospices, primary care trusts or larger regions.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
1477-030X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Electronic
pubmed:volume
24
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
807-11
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2010
pubmed:articleTitle
Is it possible to determine use of hospice palliative care services by matching hospice and cancer registry data?
pubmed:affiliation
Thames Cancer Registry, King's College London, UK. victoria.coupland@kcl.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article