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Editorial
. 2012 Feb;9(2):e1001181.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1001181. Epub 2012 Feb 28.

Beyond the numbers: describing care at the end of life

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Editorial

Beyond the numbers: describing care at the end of life

PLoS Medicine Editors. PLoS Med. 2012 Feb.

Abstract

In the February editorial, the PLoS Medicine editors reflect on recent research describing care for cancer patients in the final days of life.

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The authors' individual competing interests are at http://www.plosmedicine.org/static/editorsInterests.action. PLoS is funded partly through manuscript publication charges, but the PLoS Medicine Editors are paid a fixed salary (their salary is not linked to the number of papers published in the journal).

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