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About one-third of deaths in Britain take place at home and two-thirds in hospitals; relatively few spend their final days in hospices, chiefly because there are few hospices.
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Thompson, M.K., Matthews, B., Crowther, A.G.O. (1983). Terminal care — at home or in the hospital or hospice?. In: Fry, J. (eds) Common Dilemmas in Family Medicine. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-9192-3_10
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