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  1. The ethics of caring for hospital-dependent patients.Calvin Sung & Jennifer L. Herbst - 2017 - BMC Medical Ethics 18 (1):1-6.
    Background Hospital-dependent patients are individuals who are repeatedly readmitted to the hospital because their acute medical needs cannot be met elsewhere. Unlike the chronically critically ill, these patients do not have a continuous need for life-sustaining equipment and can experience periods of relative stability where they have a good quality of life. However, some end up spending months or even years in the hospital receiving resource-intensive care because they are unable to be safely discharged, despite an initial optimistic prognosis. It (...)
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