Short communication expenditures on health care in the last year of life
- 1 October 1989
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in The International Journal of Health Planning and Management
- Vol. 4 (4) , 319-322
- https://doi.org/10.1002/hpm.4740040407
Abstract
18-26% of public expenditure on health care is devoted to care of patients in their last year of life. 60% of this expenditure is on patients in somatic nursing homes. The figures do not tell directly whether too much or too little money in Norwegian health care is spent on people in the end stage of life. In order to answer this question, one must look at the quality of terminal care and assess the share of patients having a reasonable benefit of the care they receive.Keywords
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