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Hospice techniques for hospitalized patients provide better end-of-life care

by Jim Bakken

January 23, 2014
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A study by researchers at the Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center and the University of Alabama at Birmingham says using home-based hospice practices for terminally ill, hospitalized patients could reduce suffering and improve end-of-life care.

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-hospice-techniques-hospitalized-patients-end-of-life.html

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