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TY - JOUR
T1 - Place of death in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
T2 - a population based comparative study using death certificates data
AU - Loucka, Martin
AU - Payne, Sheila A.
AU - Brearley, Sarah G.
N1 - © 2014 Loucka et al. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited.
PY - 2014/3/20
Y1 - 2014/3/20
N2 - Place of death represents an important indicator for end-of-life care policy making and is related to the quality of life of patients and their families. The aim of the paper is to analyse the place of death in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 2011. Research questions were focused on factors influencing the place of death and specifically the likelihood of dying at home.
AB - Place of death represents an important indicator for end-of-life care policy making and is related to the quality of life of patients and their families. The aim of the paper is to analyse the place of death in the Czech Republic and Slovakia in 2011. Research questions were focused on factors influencing the place of death and specifically the likelihood of dying at home.
KW - Health policy
KW - End-of-life care
KW - Palliative care
KW - Location of death
KW - Eastern Europe
U2 - 10.1186/1472-684X-13-13
DO - 10.1186/1472-684X-13-13
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 24650214
VL - 13
JO - BMC Palliative Care
JF - BMC Palliative Care
SN - 1472-684X
IS - 1
M1 - 13
ER -