Does Receipt of Hospice Care in Nursing Homes Improve the Management of Pain at the End of Life?
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- 1 March 2002
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Wiley in Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
- Vol. 50 (3) , 507-515
- https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1532-5415.2002.50118.x
Abstract
OBJECTIVES: To compare analgesic management of daily pain for dying nursing home residents enrolled and not enrolled in Medicare hospice. DESIGN: Retrospective, comparative cohort study. SETTING...Keywords
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