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Palliative Care in A Conflict Zone: Help Us Support Our Hospice and Palliative Care Colleagues in Ukraine

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Staff has been working overtime with fewer resources, as programs accommodate internally displaced persons and deal with shortages of supplies, medications, and staff. Families are unable to visit their loved ones and patients suffer from limited access to care and medications.

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Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model

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By John Scott Frazer, Glenn Ross Frazer Reference : Frazer JS , Frazer GR, Analysis of primary care prescription trends in England during the COVID-19 pandemic compared against a predictive model, Family Medicine and Community Health 2021; 9: e001143.

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Hospital-at-Home: Bruce Leff and Tacara Soones

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But as we talked to patients and providers, there was, really, this need for patients who wanted services, like IV antibiotics and IV fluids, but wanted to be able to spend that time at home, with their family, even if it meant it was their last days or weeks. Just one last comment there. We did our initial pilot study. Eric: Yeah.

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