Hospice usage by minorities in the last year of life: results from the National Mortality Followback Survey.

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Published in J Am Geriatr Soc on July 01, 2003

Authors

K Allen Greiner1, Subashan Perera, Jasjit S Ahluwalia

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Family Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, Kansas City, Kansas, USA. agreiner@kumc.edu

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