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Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Facilities > Hospitals > Hospitals, Special > Hospices
Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services > Health Services > Community Health Services > Hospices

Preferred term

Hospices  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

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Note

  • "palliative & supportive care to the dying patient & his family"; specify geog

Scope note

  • Facilities or services which are especially devoted to providing palliative and supportive care to the patient with a terminal illness and to the patient's family.

History note

  • 80(Aug 77); was see under HOSPITALS, SPECIAL Aug 77-79

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http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D006738

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