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Hospices

"Hospices" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus, MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure, which enables searching at various levels of specificity.

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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.


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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Hospices" by people in this website by year, and whether "Hospices" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
Bar chart showing 7 publications over 6 distinct years, with a maximum of 2 publications in 2002
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