Hospice, opiates, and acute care service use among the elderly before death from heart failure or cancer.

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Published in Am Heart J on July 01, 2010

Authors

Soko Setoguchi1, Robert J Glynn, Margaret Stedman, Carol M Flavell, Raisa Levin, Lynne Warner Stevenson

Author Affiliations

1: Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA. ssetoguchi@partners.org

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