[PDF] Top 20 Health-services utilisation amongst older persons during the last year of life: a population-based study

... even amongst those with non-cancer conditions ‘ likely to benefit from palliative end-of-life care’ ...hospital, based on clinical (anecdotal) experience, it is ... See full document

... this study must be addressed. First, the absolute number of older adults using care in this study is affected by stratification on end-of-life ...general older population in the ... See full document

... dementia based on clinician’s ...depressed persons from the mental health institutions was estimated ...510 persons had a mean age of ...depressed persons did not differ from the ... See full document

... Older persons are more dependent on medical and nurs- ing care facilities than other population ...all persons 75 years and older in Germany 23% were dependent on permanent care (in ... See full document

... This study had some selection biases at baseline, which may decrease ...elderly persons who consulted their GP for whatever reason were included, and they may be more vulnerable than elderly persons ... See full document

... utilized health services [18] but has been modified several times after ...of services can be regarded as a human be- haviour that is influenced by the social context in which it takes ...of ... See full document

... on health determinants like social participation. Many older adults do not have equitable opportunities to achieve full social participation, and interventions might underempower their personal and ... See full document

... This study had some ...healthcare utilisation and associated ...support services for this population are likely to be substantial but these were not included as robust data on these costs were ... See full document

... children older than a year of age and those cases without CCCs, respectively) were significantly more likely to be hospitalized and to experience mechanical ventilation or some other procedure, in general ... See full document

... present study also has some ...the health examination, including audiometry, in the present study were less likely to have used some of the health services studied (visits to a ... See full document

... check study, as recommended by Mar- quis [9], which identifies a population and sample from it independently of records, obtains survey and record infor- mation for each sampled element and compares the two ... See full document

... pilot study designed to explore the barriers, facilitators and similarities with the delivery and implementation of two distinct models of Advance Care Planning (ACP) documentation for older adults in their ... See full document

... everyday life); clinical information systems (how to provide information and clinical care); delivery system re-design (creating healthcare teams with clear re- sponsibility); decision support (providing optimal ... See full document

... increased during the ...the study period and administration was interrupted at least 24 hours before a study visit, except for those patients who were receiving a continuous maintenance dosage ... See full document

... have health problems are often less productive at work. Example of health behaviours are considered costly and risky are smoking, excessive alcohol consumption, poor diet, and lack of physical ...improve ... See full document

... this study as they will allow the investigation of the extent to which individuals with these impairments are using health care ...that health care utilisa- tion is a function of an individual’s ... See full document

... from health professionals with reports of difficulties in understanding the language ...by health professionals was reported in four studies to not be tailored to individual ... See full document

... public health chal- lenge despite the encouraging changes achieved through the Millennium Development Goals [1, ...antenatal health service utilization [3–7], high rates of home delivery [8–12] and low use ... See full document

... the utilisation of Antenatal health care services in the rural area, to assess the association between demographic status and antenatal health care services and to assess the factors ... See full document

... this study is the analysis of a large, high-quality EHR database, representative of a large ...national health system with universal coverage, EHR data have been shown to yield more reliable and ... See full document