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Commentary on: Bonares M, Stillos K, Huynh L, Selby D. Differences in trends in discharge location in a cohort of hospitalized patients with cancer and non-cancer diagnoses receiving specialist palliative care: A retrospective cohort study. Palliat Med. 2023 Sep;37(8):1241–1251. doi: 10.1177/02692163231183009. Epub 2023 Jul 14.
Implications for practice and research
Timely palliative care should be provided to non-cancer terminally ill patients because they may have more unmet care needs.
Future study is warranted to explore different models of timely palliative care for different non-cancer diseases.
Context
Owing to global ageing worldwide, the unmet needs during end-of-life care among non-cancer patients increases rapidly. Therefore, early palliative care for non-cancer patients with focus on quality of care is valued more than ever. However, there is still a gap between optimal palliative care and unmet needs among terminally ill non-cancer patients because the fundamental …
Footnotes
Correction notice This article has been corrected since it was first published online. The title has been updated.
Competing interests None declared.
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