Chest
Volume 120, Issue 3, September 2001, Pages 1043-1044
Communications to the EditorDying With Respiratory Disease
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To the Editor:
Since little is known about the symptoms and treatments for dying patients with respiratory diseases, we carried out a chart review for symptoms experienced in the last 2 days of life and the effectiveness of treatment.1 The medical records of 150 sequential patients who died at a respiratory division in an university hospital in April 1994 through December 2000 were reviewed.
The 150 patients who died had an average age of 65 years, and 101 patients (67%) were men. One hundred nine patients had
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