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Using electronic health record data accessed via OpenSAFELY to develop indicators of end-of-life care quality

2026-02-04 palliative medicine Title + abstract only
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An understated disruption to health services brought about by the Covid-19 pandemic was the increase in deaths occurring outside a hospital. Since quality of end-of-life care is typically monitored through place of death and hospital activity, a new approach focused on care in community settings is needed. In this study, we aimed to test whether patient-centric measures of quality at the end of life can be derived from primary care electronic records. With the approval of NHS England, analysis ...

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