Differences in medical costs for end-of-life patients receiving traditional care and those receiving hospice care: A retrospective study

• Ya-Ting Huang ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: frankie7451@gmail.com(YTH); wtang@mail.cgu.edu.tw(WRT)

  Affiliations Department of Nursing, Camillian Saint Mary`s Hospital Luodong, Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan, R.O.C, Saint Mary’s Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Sanxing Township, Taiwan, R.O.C

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• Ying-Wei Wang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision, Visualization

  Affiliation Health Promotion Administration, Ministry of Health and Welfare. Datong Dist., Taipei City, Taiwan, R.O.C

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• Chou-Wen Chi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliations Division of Hematology-Oncology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City, Taiwan, R.O.C, College of Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, ROC

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• Wen-Yu Hu,

  Roles Conceptualization, Methodology, Supervision

  Affiliation Department of Nursing College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan R.O.C

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• Rung Lin Jr,

  Roles Formal analysis, Supervision

  Affiliations Department of Anesthesiology, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital at Linkou, Guishan Dist., Taoyuan City, Taiwan, R.O.C, Clinical Informatics and Medical Statistics Research Center, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, ROC, Graduate Institute of Clinical Medicine, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, ROC

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• Chih-Chung Shiao,

  Roles Funding acquisition, Project administration

  Affiliations Saint Mary’s Junior College of Medicine, Nursing and Management, Sanxing Township, Taiwan, R.O.C, Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, Camillian Saint Mary`s Hospital Luodong, Luodong, Yilan, Taiwan, R.O.C

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2220-7574

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• Woung-Ru Tang

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: frankie7451@gmail.com(YTH); wtang@mail.cgu.edu.tw(WRT)

  Affiliation School of Nursing, Chang Gung University, Kwei-Shan, Tao-Yuan, Taiwan, ROC

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2960-1841

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