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You download the province's statistics on numbers and causes
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Correct. The simplest and quickest way to calculate the number
of people who might need palliative care is to use the number
of deaths. This gives an estimate of incidence -- number of new
cases occuring in a period of time. For example the number of
deaths per year. Thus the incidence of patients who need palliative
care can be estimated from the number of deaths due to common
conditions that might require palliative care (see next example).
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