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Is Hospice Losing Its Way: A Podcast with Ira Byock and Joseph Shega

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Working with Abe Brody at NYU to do a randomized control trial of an intervention for education, for psychotropic use in end stage dementia patients. And even up to a year out across diagnoses, every diagnoses including neurodegenerative diseases, costs less for those enrolled in hospice compared to not. Overall it was 3.1%

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