Recognizing dementia as a terminal illness in nursing home residents: Comment on "Survival and comfort after treatment of pneumonia in advanced dementia"
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Recognizing dementia as a terminal illness in nursing home residents: Comment on "Survival and comfort after treatment of pneumonia in advanced dementia"
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Survival and comfort after treatment of pneumonia in advanced dementia.Arch Intern Med. 2010 Jul 12;170(13):1102-7. doi: 10.1001/archinternmed.2010.181. Arch Intern Med. 2010. PMID: 20625013 Free PMC article.
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