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Professor Liz Walker E.Walker@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Health and Social Work Research, Associate Pro Vice-Chancellor (Research Culture)

Patterns of acute hospital and specialist palliative care use among people with non-curative upper gastrointestinal cancer (2024)
Journal Article
Boland, E. G., Tay, K. T., Khamis, A., & Murtagh, F. E. (2024). Patterns of acute hospital and specialist palliative care use among people with non-curative upper gastrointestinal cancer. Supportive care in cancer : official journal of the Multinational Association of Supportive Care in Cancer, 32(7), Article 432. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00520-024-08624-x

Purpose: Upper gastrointestinal (GI) cancers contribute to 16.7% of UK cancer deaths. These patients make high use of acute hospital services, but detail about palliative care use is lacking. We aimed to determine the patterns of use of acute hospita... Read More about Patterns of acute hospital and specialist palliative care use among people with non-curative upper gastrointestinal cancer.