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

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...

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Main Authors: Spilsbury, Katrina, Rosenwax, L., Brameld, Kate, Kelly, B., Arendts, G.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Public Library of Science 2018
Online Access:http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1084890
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/74868