Home-Care as an efficient and cost-effective strategy of treatment in terminal cancer care: Report after 5 years of experience

8201 \batchmode \documentclass[fleqn,10pt,legalpaper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amsmath} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \(\underline{\mathrm{Background:}}\) \end{document} the G.R.A.D.O. Association (Gruppo Ricerca Assistenza Domiciliare Oncologica) providing home-care for cancer patients was begun in June 1998. The drawing thought of our work is that, in the advanced phases of cancer, the best place of treatment should be the patients' home, considering that home is the natural container of persons' life which, with a convenient help, would prefer to spend the terminal phases of their life at home rather than hospital. \batchmode \documentclass[fleqn,10pt,legalpaper]{article} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amsmath} \pagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \(\underline{\mathrm{Methods:}}\) \end{document} at home, an oncologist and a professional nurse draw up the assistance program; the professional team is also composed of an internist, a physic...