Comparison of pediatric and adult hospice patients using electronic medical record data from nine hospices in the United States, 2008-2012.

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Published in J Palliat Med on November 20, 2014

Authors

Laura Dingfield1, Laura Bender, Pamela Harris, Kristina Newport, Margo Hoover-Regan, Chris Feudtner, Sheila Clifford, David Casarett

Author Affiliations

1: 1 Department of Medicine, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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