Response: Re: Variations in Hospice Use Among Cancer Patients
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Re: Variations in hospice use among cancer patients.
Numerous studies have been done to analyze hospice use among terminally ill pa tients. The recent study by Keating et al. ( 1 ) analyzed variations in hospice use among cancer patients. I applaud their efforts but wish to highlight other factors that could have been considered to make the results more comprehensive. The authors reported that the rate of hospice enrollment varied by the race of ...
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عنوان ژورنال: JNCI: Journal of the National Cancer Institute
سال: 2007
ISSN: 1460-2105,0027-8874
DOI: 10.1093/jnci/djk010