title: Benefits and costs of home palliative care compared with usual care for patients with advanced illness and their family caregivers.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Are home palliative care services associated with benefits to patients with advanced illness and family caregivers, and are they cost-effective?
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Compared with usual care, home palliative care is associated with increased odds of dying at home and fewer symptoms for patients with advanced illness. It is not associated with changes in caregiver grief. Cost-effectiveness is inconclusive.
authors.affiliation: King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Barbara
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Gomes
authors.affiliation: King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Natalia
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Calanzani
authors.affiliation: King's College London, Cicely Saunders Institute, Department of Palliative Care, Policy and Rehabilitation, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: Irene J
authors.initials: IJ
authors.lastname: Higginson
mesh_terms: D017028:Caregivers; D016638:Critical Illness / Q000451:nursing*; D005260:Female; D006699:Home Care Services; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*