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Clinical findings and recommendations made during home visits by a palliative care specialist physician
Palliative Medicine, 07/08/09

Bush SH et al. - The major actionable clinical findings were pain, gastrointestinal, neuropsychiatric, mouth and skin and respiratory. One-third of recommendations involved changes in analgesia regimen. The specialist physician home visit resulted in multiple patient care recommendations. This information may help palliative care programmes improve their care for patients and families in the community.

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