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The role of the general practitioner in caring for people in the last year of their lives

Author:

King Edward's Hospital Fund for London and Cartwright, Ann

Publication date:

1990

Abstract:

The care given to a random sample of adults who died in 1987 is described retrospectively by relatives and others who had known them. Most praised, or were satisfied with, the care given by general practitioners but both the statistics and the quotations reveal some disconcerting inadequacies in this care, ...