Rx for Dying: The Case for Hospice

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 318, Issue 6, 1988, Pages 376-378

  Bulkin, Wilma ^a   Lukashok, Herbert ^b  

^a Beth Abraham Health Services   (United States)

^b Albert Eisntein College of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC ASPECT; EDITORIAL; HOSPICE; HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; TERMINAL DISEASE;

EID: 0023838953     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJM198802113180609     Document Type: Editorial

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