Survival Duration among Patients with a Noncancer Diagnosis Admitted to a Palliative Care Unit: A Retrospective Study
Journal of Palliative Medicine, 06/26/2012
Downar J et al. – The findings demonstrate that noncancer patients are not “oversurviving,” and that referring physicians and PCUs should not reject or restrict noncancer referrals out of concern that these patients are having a detrimental impact on PCU bed availability.



