Physicians' preferences for hospice if they were terminally ill and the timing of hospice discussions with their patients

Affiliations

• ¹ Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston.
• ² Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts.
• ³ Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland.
• ⁴ RAND, Santa Monica, California5Division of General Internal Medicine, Department of Medicine, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California.
• ⁵ Department of Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts6Division of General Internal Medicine and Primary Care, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts.