Recently, palliative care units are required to provide home-care support. In our palliative care unit, we support withh ospital discharge according to patient's wishes. In 2 years since April 2016, 104 of 536 hospitalized patients were discharged home (home discharge rate 19.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFOur palliative care unit(PCU)supports the home care patient through emergencyacceptance for 24 hours, and 26.6%of inpatients died within 1 week after hospitalization in 2015. We examined the background of patients who became hospitalized in the imminent condition of life.
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