Identifying hospice-appropriate nursing home residents for physicians increased hospice referrals and enrollment

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Tara F Bishop. Evid Based Med. 2006 Apr.

. 2006 Apr;11(2):49.

doi: 10.1136/ebm.11.2.49.

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