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Drs. Alexander K. Smith and John Boscardin co-authored study on Hospice Use in Parkinson’s and Lewy Body Dementia

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NCIRE-supported Principal Investigators Drs. Alexander K. Smith and W. John Boscardin, co-authored the study, “Hospice Use Among Medicare Beneficiaries With Parkinson Disease and Dementia With Lewy Bodies”.

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Published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) Network Open, the study centered on the objective to compare patient characteristics, hospice agency characteristics, and patterns of use for beneficiaries with Parkinson disease and Lewy Body Dementia versus those with Alzheimer disease.

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Read more: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40036035/

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