TY - JOUR AU - Mitchell, Paul Mark AU - Coast, Joanna AU - Myring, Gareth AU - Ricciardi, Federico AU - Vickerstaff, Victoria AU - Jones, Louise AU - Zafar, Shazia AU - Cudmore, Sarah AU - Jordan, Joanne AU - McKibben, Laurie AU - Graham-Wisener, Lisa AU - Finucane, Anne M. AU - Hewison, Alistair AU - Haraldsdottir, Erna AU - Brazil, Kevin AU - Kernohan, W. George PY - 2020 DA - 2020/08/07 TI - Exploring the costs, consequences and efficiency of three types of palliative care day services in the UK: a pragmatic before-and-after descriptive cohort study JO - BMC Palliative Care SP - 119 VL - 19 IS - 1 AB - Palliative Care Day Services (PCDS) offer supportive care to people with advanced, progressive illness who may be approaching the end of life. Despite the growth of PCDS in recent years, evidence of their costs and effects is scarce. It is important to establish the value of such services so that health and care decision-makers can make evidence-based resource allocation decisions. This study examines and estimates the costs and effects of PCDS with different service configurations in three centres across the UK in England, Scotland and Northern Ireland. SN - 1472-684X UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12904-020-00624-y DO - 10.1186/s12904-020-00624-y ID - Mitchell2020 ER -