What is it about?
End of life is the most resource intensive from a healthcare perspective. Death is a retrospective measure of this resource consumption.
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Why is it important?
Resource consumption during end of life needs to be planned for and this is made more difficult if deaths are behaving in unusual ways.
Perspectives
I first came across these unusual events in 1993. They keep on happening and seemingly keep on being ignored. Part of a far wider series, see http://www.hcaf.biz/2010/Publications_Full.pdf
Dr Rodney P Jones
Healthcare Analysis & Forecasting
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This page is a summary of: Unusual International Behaviour of Deaths Suggests a Possible New Kind of Disease Outbreak, SSRN Electronic Journal, January 2019, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3364795.
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