Volume 195 - Issue 2
Hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life: a baseline for future modifications to end-of-life care
Authors: Lorna K Rosenwax, Beverley A McNamara, Kevin Murray, Rebecca J McCabe, Samar M Aoun and David C Currow
Med J Aust 2011; 195 (2): 104. || doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03232.x
Published online: 18 July 2011
Published online: 18 July 2011
Correction
Mean number of days in hospital incorrectly expressed: In “Hospital and emergency department use in the last year of life: a baseline for future modifications to end-of-life care” in the 6 June 2011 issue of the Journal (Med J Aust 2011; 194: 570-573), the mean number of days in hospital was given per hospital admission for decedents with and without cancer. This should have read: “Decedents with cancer had a mean number of hospital admissions of 7.6 (SD, 10.2; median, 5) with the mean number of days in hospital per decedent of 41.3 (SD, 35.2; median, 34). Decedents with non-cancer diagnoses had a mean number of hospital admissions of 8.1 (SD, 23.1; median, 3) with the mean number of days in hospital per decedent of 49.6 (SD, 60.0; median, 30).”