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Hospice Care

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Hospice care is patient-centered care delivered in the final months of life with a focus on quality of life and expert level care in the management of physical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual needs of the dying patient.

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  1. Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL, USA

    Ritika Oberoi-Jassal

  2. Department of Oncologic Sciences College of Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

    Ritika Oberoi-Jassal

  3. Evolve Restorative Center, Santa Rosa, CA, USA

    Jason Pope

  4. University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA

    Navdeep Jassal

  5. University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, USA

    Navdeep Jassal

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  1. Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health, Madison, WI, USA

    Alaa Abd-Elsayed

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Oberoi-Jassal, R., Pope, J., Jassal, N. (2019). Hospice Care. In: Abd-Elsayed, A. (eds) Pain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99124-5_199

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