Hospice care falls as more Americans spend final days in hospitals; Milwaukee hospital reports success with treatment guidelines
The Associated Press: “Americans increasingly are treated to death, spending more time in hospitals in their final days, trying last-ditch treatments that often buy only weeks of time, and racking up bills that have made medical care a leading cause of bankruptcies. More than 80 percent of people who die in the United States have a long, progressive illness such as cancer, heart failure or Alzheimer’s disease.”
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