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STUDY OBJECTIVE: To examine the association between socioeconomic position at the time of birth and the use and cost of hospital inpatient services during the first 10 years of life. DESIGN: Analysis of a database of linked birth registrations,…

Ethics consultations have been shown to reduce the use of "nonbeneficial treatments," defined as life-sustaining treatments delivered to patients who ultimately did not survive to hospital discharge, when treatment conflicts occurred in the adult…

Defining financial parameters of palliative care (PC) is important for providing sustainable programming. In our study, we evaluated hospital length of stay (LOS) and charges for the first 164 inpatient PC consultations performed by the Advanced…