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To the Editor: The proposal by Miller and Fins (June 27 issue)¹ that hospital care be restructured, with more explicit attention to dying patients, highlights an important and unmet need within our health care system. The quality of hospice care has been excellent for patients who qualify for the Medicare hospice benefit, require extensive informal support, and have a fairly predictable prognosis, but the majority of people in the United States still die in hospitals or nursing homes. Although I agree that we need to restructure hospital care for dying patients, I see no particular need to link that care . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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