Burden on family carers and care-related financial strain at the end of life: a cross-national population-based study.

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Published in Eur J Public Health on March 17, 2014

Authors

Lara Pivodic1, Lieve Van den Block2, Koen Pardon2, Guido Miccinesi3, Tomás Vega Alonso4, Nicole Boffin5, Gé A Donker6, Maurizio Cancian7, Aurora López-Maside8, Bregje D Onwuteaka-Philipsen9, Luc Deliens10, EURO IMPACT

Author Affiliations

1: 1 End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium lara.pivodic@vub.ac.be.
2: 1 End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium.
3: 2 Cancer Prevention and Research Institute (ISPO), Florence, Italy.
4: 3 Public Health Directorate, Ministry of Health, Autonomous Community of Castile and Leon, Valladolid, Spain.
5: 4 Scientific Institute of Public Health, Brussels, Belgium.
6: 5 NIVEL, Netherlands Institute for Health Services Research, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
7: 6 SIMG, Italian College of General Practitioners, Florence, Italy.
8: 7 Public Health General Directorate, Health Department, Valencian Community, Valencia, Spain.
9: 8 Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
10: 1 End-of-Life Care Research Group, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and Ghent University, Brussels, Belgium 8 Department of Public and Occupational Health, EMGO+ Institute for Health and Care Research, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

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