Rapidly increasing end-of-life care needs: a timely warning
Abstract Current trends in population ageing show that, in the near future, while more people will live longer, more will also die at any one time. Health systems, as well as individual practitioners, are only just becoming aware of the extent of this problem. Health systems will have to rapidly cha...
Main Author: | Geoffrey Mitchell |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2017-07-01
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Series: | BMC Medicine |
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Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12916-017-0897-2 |
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