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High end of life health care costs and hospitalization burden in inflammatory bowel disease patients: A population-based study.

Sanjay K MurthyPaul D JamesLilia AntonovaMathieu ChalifouxPeter Tanuseputro
Published in: PloS one (2017)
IBD patients spend more time in hospital and incur substantially greater health care costs than other decedents as they approach the EOL. These excess costs could be curtailed through avoidance of unnecessary hospitalizations and expensive treatments in the setting of irreversible deterioration.
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