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Comparative Study
. 1980 May;18(5):560-4.
doi: 10.1097/00005650-198005000-00009.

Home and hospital cost of terminal illness

B S Bloom, P D Kissick
Comparative Study

Home and hospital cost of terminal illness

B S Bloom et al. Med Care. 1980 May.

Abstract

A study was undertaken of the billed charges of the last 2 weeks of life of patients terminally ill with malignant disease. A sample was drawn of those who died at home and matched to those who died in a hospital. The cost was 10.5 times greater for the last 2 weeks of life for terminal care in a hospital than at home, due to the greater range and larger quantity of diagnostic and therapeutic services provided to hospitalized patients than to those who died at home.

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