Duration and determinants of hospice-based specialist palliative care: A national retrospective cohort study.
Matthew John AllsopLucy E ZieglerMatthew R MulveySarah RussellRos TaylorMichael I BennettPublished in: Palliative medicine (2018)
Despite increasing rhetoric around early referral, patients with advanced disease are receiving referrals to hospice specialist palliative care very late in their illness trajectory. Age and diagnosis persist as determinants of duration of hospice specialist palliative care before death.