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Place of death
People die everywhere, so care should be optimised in all settings and all along the way
BMJ 2015; 351 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.h5677 (Published 27 October 2015) Cite this as: BMJ 2015;351:h5677
- Scott A Murray, St Columba’s Hospice chair of primary palliative care1,
- Sébastien Moine, family physician2
- 1Primary Palliative Care Research Group, Usher Institute of Population Health Sciences and Informatics, Medical School, Edinburgh EH8 9AG, UK
- 2“Les Vignes de l’Abbaye,” Saint Just en Chaussée, France
- scott.murray{at}ed.ac.uk
We agree with Pollock that a preoccupation with dying at home as an indicator of a good death deflects attention from improving the quality of care elsewhere.1 Because people die in all settings, and will continue to do so, we should seek to optimise …
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