End-of-life care in hospital: current practice and potentials for improvement.

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Published in J Pain Symptom Manage on June 01, 2007

Authors

Gerhild Becker1, Robert Sarhatlic, Manfred Olschewski, Carola Xander, Felix Momm, Hubert E Blum

Author Affiliations

1: Departments of Medicine II, University Hospital Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany. becker@med1.ukl.uni-freiburg.de

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