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=== Hospice care === While hospitals focus on treating the disease, [[hospice]]s focus on improving patient [[Quality of life (healthcare)|quality-of-life]] until death. Hospice patients are able to live at peace away from a hospital setting; they may live at home with a hospice provider or at an inpatient hospice facility.<ref name="Buss-2017" /> A common misconception is that hospice care hastens death because patients "give up" fighting the disease. However, people in hospice care often live the same length of time as patients in the hospital, or longer. Additionally, people receiving hospice care have significantly lower healthcare expenditures.<ref name="Chiang-2015a">{{Cite journal|last1=Chiang|first1=Jui-Kun|last2=Kao|first2=Yee-Hsin|date=April 2015|title=The impact of hospice care on survival and cost saving among patients with liver cancer: a national longitudinal population-based study in Taiwan|journal=Supportive Care in Cancer|volume=23|issue=4|pages=1049β1055|doi=10.1007/s00520-014-2447-1|issn=1433-7339|pmid=25281229|s2cid=25395902|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="Chiang-2015b">{{Cite journal|last1=Chiang|first1=Jui-Kun|last2=Kao|first2=Yee-Hsin|last3=Lai|first3=Ning-Sheng|date=2015-09-25|title=The Impact of Hospice Care on Survival and Healthcare Costs for Patients with Lung Cancer: A National Longitudinal Population-Based Study in Taiwan|journal=PLOS ONE|volume=10|issue=9|pages=e0138773|doi=10.1371/journal.pone.0138773|pmid=26406871|pmc=4583292|issn=1932-6203|bibcode=2015PLoSO..1038773C|doi-access=free}}</ref> Hospice care allows patients to spend more time with family and friends. People in institutional (rather than home-care) hospice programs are also in the company of other hospice patients, which provides them with an additional support network.<ref name="Buss-2017" />
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