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

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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. Aggressive care common in nursing homes at end of life. Nearly 10% of the 1.5