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Morbidity Burden And Community-Based Palliative Care Are Associated With Rates Of Hospital Use By People With Schizophrenia In The Last Year Of Life: A Population-Based Matched Cohort Study, Katrina Spilsbury, Lorna Rosenwax, Kate Brameld, Brian Kelly, Glenn Arendts
Morbidity Burden And Community-Based Palliative Care Are Associated With Rates Of Hospital Use By People With Schizophrenia In The Last Year Of Life: A Population-Based Matched Cohort Study, Katrina Spilsbury, Lorna Rosenwax, Kate Brameld, Brian Kelly, Glenn Arendts
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Objective: People with schizophrenia face an increased risk of premature death from chronic diseases and injury. This study describes the trajectory of acute care health service use in the last year of life for people with schizophrenia and how this varied with receipt of community based specialist palliative care and morbidity burden.
Method: A population-based retrospective matched cohort study of people who died from 01/01/ 2009 to 31/12/2013 with and without schizophrenia in Western Australia. Hospital inpatient, emergency department, death and community-based care data collections were linked at the person level. Rates of emergency department presentations and hospital admissions over …