Issues & trends affecting the nation's hospices.
As the hospice industry has grown and moved from isolation into the health care system, it necessarily faces new issues. Some are definite, such as budget considerations; others are more theoretical--for instance, physician-assisted suicide--and thus may remain up for debate as hospice matures into an as-yet-unseen status.
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Hospice Association of America, Washington, DC, USA.
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