Physician factors in the timing of cance
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Elizabeth B. Lamont; Nicholas A. Christakis
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Article
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2002
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## Abstract ## BACKGROUND Although physicians state that patients ideally should receive hospice care for 3 months before death, the majority of patients survive < 1 month in hospice care. In the current study, the authors attempted to determine whether the attributes of referring physicians were