Nursing home patients with metastatic cancer: how aggressive is their end of life care?
Nursing home patients with metastatic cancer are slightly more likely (not less) to get aggressive care at the end of life, according to a study in Jama Network Open. Among 146,000 patients included in the database study, roughly equal proportions of nursing home patients (~21%) were admitted to the ICU as were community-dwellers. Nursing home patients …
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