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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Pain Symptom Manage. 2014 Aug 15;49(3):521–529.e5. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.06.017

Figure 1. Sample Selection.

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Seven years of hospital discharge data included nearly 10 million admissions among nearly 4 million individual patients. After restricting the sample to in-state residents over age 21 with mutually exclusive cancer or non-cancer diagnoses, there were 207,523 high probability of dying admissions (a) and 120,372 terminal admissions (b). These two cohorts overlapped by 52,986 admissions.