Transforming End-of-Life Care
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https://doi.org/10.17140/PMHCOJ-2-114Abstract
Currently, hospice care which focuses on caring for a terminally ill person delivers holistic, supportive, interdisciplinary, and patient-centered management. There have been nu-merous efforts to establish hospice care for people who are in the end-stage of their illness.
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