Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume 38, Issue 4 , Pages 568-577 , October 2009

General Practitioner Awareness of Preferred Place of Death and Correlates of Dying in a Preferred Place: A Nationwide Mortality Follow-Back Study in The Netherlands

  • Ebun Abarshi, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • Corresponding Author InformationAddress correspondence to: Ebun Abarshi, MD, Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, van der Boechorststraat 7, 1081 BT Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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  • Bregje Onwuteaka-Philipsen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Gé Donker, MD

      Affiliations

    • NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Michael Echteld, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • ,
  • Lieve Van den Block, PhD

      Affiliations

    • End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium
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  • Luc Deliens, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO Institute, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    • End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium

,Accepted 2 January 2009.

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 The Dutch SENTI-MELC research group was supported by the Institute for the Promotion of Innovation by Science and Technology in Flanders as a strategic basic research project (contract SBO IWT 050158: 2006-2010), in “Monitoring the Quality of End-of-Life Care (MELC).” It is a collaboration between the Vrije University Medical Center Amsterdam, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Gent University, and Antwerp University.The Fund for Scientific Research did not play any role in the design and conduct of the study, collection, management, analysis, and interpretation of the data, or in the preparation, review, or approval of this manuscript.

 None of the authors had any potential conflicts of interest.

PII: S0885-3924(09)00600-9

doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2008.12.007

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Volume 38, Issue 4 , Pages 568-577 , October 2009

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