Evaluation of home-based hospice and palliative care in a community health center in Korea: Impact on quality of life and health care utilization

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2009

Publication Title

Asian Nursing Research

Volume

3

Issue

1

First page number:

141

Last page number:

151

Abstract

To evaluate the effects of a home-based palliative care program, delivered by a community health center in Korea, in terms of quality of life and health care utilization.

A cross-sectional comparative study was utilized. Data were collected from 30 terminally ill cancer patients who had received palliative care from the community health center and 46 terminally ill cancer patients not receiving palliative care from the center. The measurements used in the study were a Revised Korean version of Quality of Life at the End of Life survey, self-reports on days of hospital admission and the frequency of outpatient care and ER visits during the past 6 months.

Keywords

Korea; Home nursing; Palliative treatment; Quality of life; Terminal care; Terminally ill — Home care

Disciplines

Nursing | Other Nursing

Language

English

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