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Internal Medicine organization issues guidelines to improve care of 3 symptoms at end of life

The American College of Physicians has issued new guidelines to improve palliative care at the end of life. The guidelines say that clinicians should regularly assess people with serious illness at the end of life for symptoms of pain, shortness of breath and depression; that they should use proven therapies to treat these conditions; and should ensure that advance care planning occurs for all patients with serious illness.

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