People in hospice are less likely to die in a hospital or nursing home, and less likely to get costly and intensive care, than terminally ill patients who don’t opt for hospice care, according to a new study of older Americans with cancer. Ziad Obermeyer, assistant professor of medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital, is lead author of the research.
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