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We describe the circumstances that led to the building up of a home care service for terminally ill cancer patients in a part of southern Switzerland. We describe the goals, the structure and the functioning of this service as it works in two areas. We give some results of a retrospective study on hospitalization, home care and death at home.
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Meier, M.L., Neuenschwander, H. Hospice — a homecare service for terminally ill cancer patients in southern Switzerland. Support Care Cancer 3, 389–392 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00364978
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00364978