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Hospice Video Could Increase Benefit Access, Study Says

Published on Fri Jun 12, 2020

There may be a way to educate potential hospice patients about the benefit, even though physicians often feel uncomfortable discussing the topic. A new Harvard Medical School study shows that after watching a six-minute video about hospice, patients with advanced cancer were more likely to use hospice services before they died (85.2 percent vs 63.6 percent) and had longer lengths [...]
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