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In Finland, with a population of about 5 million, the number of patients dying of malignant diseases is 10,000 a year. Almost all of them (93%) die in hospitals, 2% in other institutions, and only 5% die at home. During the last few years, increasing attention has been paid to the quality of terminal care. New ideas about individual and comprehensive care have entered into the Finnish communal home care system, and the first hospice is under construction.
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Vainio, A. (1988). Pain Treatment and Terminal Care in Finnish Hospitals. In: Gilmore, A., Gilmore, S. (eds) A Safer Death. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8359-2_13
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