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PEDIATRICS Vol. 102 No. 2 August 1998, pp. 436-437

Terminal Care in Cystic Fibrosis: Hospital Versus Home?

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To the Editor.

As a member of a pediatric cystic fibrosis (CF) care team, I was struck by the contrast between my experience of the end-of-life care of those with CF and that of Robinson et al.1 Whereas all but 1 of their child and adult patients died in hospital, in the last 10 years only 43.8% (9/21) of our patients (ages 5-21 years) have died there. In Cape Town, death has . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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