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Race/ethnic differences in end-of-life care: Podcast with Rashmi Sharma and Zhi Jia
We have made remarkable progress in reducing the use of feeding tubes for patients with advanced dementia. This has been due to the leadership of people like Susan Mitchell and Joan Teno, among others. One might hope that this reduction in use of feeding tubes has been in part due to advance care planning discussions that helped align care and treatment with patients goals.
How then, do we explain the concerning findings in a pair of recent papers demonstrating high rates of mechanical ventilation among patients with dementia? In today's podcast, we talk with Rashmi Sharma, who in JAGS found…
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