[Examination of Home Care Patients Who Died within One Week after Hospitalization in the Palliative Care Unit].

Our 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. Symptoms of dyspnea and generalized weakness were causes of hospitalization even with experienced home medical intervention, and there was a tendencyof the rate of death within 1 week after hospitalization to be high. Qualityof palliative care for short-term death cases after PCU hospitalization is a major concern.