More competent informal caregivers reduce advanced cancer patients' unplanned healthcare use and costs.

Published in: Cancer medicine (2024)

With deterioration in patients' condition and an increase in caregiving demands, improving caregivers' competency can reduce patients' unplanned healthcare use and costs. This should be further tested in future trials.

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healthcare
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chronic kidney disease
palliative care
prognostic factors
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