Study says many patients enter hospice care too late

Slightly more patients with terminal cancer are getting hospice care during the end of their lives, but they are still entering hospice care too late — within days of death — finds a new national analysis. Lachlan Forrow, HMS associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Susan Block, HMS professor of psychiatry at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, are quoted.

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