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End-stage Chronic Illness<br />

• Don’t fit the classification of “dying”<br />

• Incomplete prognostic information<br />

• Many have been “rescued”<br />

• Slow, progressive decline in function<br />

• Sudden complications without adequate<br />

expression of health care preferences<br />

• Difficult, confusing choices

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