The Health Care Cost of Dying: A Population-Based Retrospective Cohort Study of the Last Year of Life in Ontario, Canada

• Peter Tanuseputro ,

  * E-mail: peter.tanuseputro@mail.utoronto.ca

  Affiliations Bruyère Research Institute, Bruyère Centre of Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-Term Care, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa, Ontario, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Walter P. Wodchis,

  Affiliations Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Toronto Rehabilitation Institute, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Rob Fowler,

  Affiliation Department of Medicine and Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Ontario

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• Peter Walker,

  Affiliation Bruyère Research Institute, Bruyère Centre of Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-Term Care, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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• Yu Qing Bai,

  Affiliation Institute for Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Sue E. Bronskill,

  Affiliations Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Institute for Health Policy, Management & Evaluation, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Douglas Manuel

  Affiliations Bruyère Research Institute, Bruyère Centre of Learning, Research and Innovation in Long-Term Care, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Clinical Epidemiology Program, Ottawa, Ontario, Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Health Analysis Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Department of Family Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

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