Health service utilisation at the end of life in people with life-limiting illnesses

This work aims to increase knowledge and understanding of the health service utilisation of people with life-limiting illnesses receiving care from a major tertiary hospital in Sydney, Australia, in their last year of life. It does so by using linked, routinely collected clinical and administrative datasets, including data from emergency departments, acute hospitals, and intensive care units. Patients who used palliative care services in a general hospital and its community palliative care services are described. Novel ways of analysing the databases are performed to generate new information to assist policymakers and hospital executive committees in making decisions about service delivery on the quantity and quality of end-of-life care services in a local hospital context. The body of work from these studies identifies implications for policy and practice within a local, national and international context.

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• Seah, Davinia Shi En

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• info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
• The author owns the copyright in this thesis including all reproduction and reuse rights for the work. The work may not be altered without the permission of the copyright owner. Attribution is essential when quoting or paraphrasing from this thesis.
• ©2024 Davinia Shi En
• au.edu.uts.lib/cph

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en

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http://hdl.handle.net/10453/190097

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oai:opus.lib.uts.edu.au:10453/190097