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Preventable and Aggressive Care for Cancer Patients: To the Bitter End

AJN Off the Charts

The study found that more than half of ED visits among patients with cancer, 51.6%, were identified as potentially preventable, with the absolute number of potentially preventable ED visits increasing substantially between 2012 and 2019. This sounds a lot like palliative care to me. Nearly 10% of the 1.5