Hospice Care - Organization & administration
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Monday, November 23, 2009

Investigating factors associated with nurses' attitudes towards perinatal bereavement care: a study in Shandong and Hong Kong.

30 Jul 2009 AIMS: To explore nurses' attitudes towards perinatal bereavement care and to identify factors associated with these attitudes. BACKGROUND: It is likely that the attitude of nursing staff can influence recovery from a pregnancy loss and that nurses ... Read more...

Technology and home care: implementing systems to enhance aging in place.

30 May 2009 The national healthcare agenda to improve efficiencies, reduce costs, provide high quality evidence and performance based care while simultaneously meeting stricter legal and regulatory requirements, has forced home care and hospice staff to change ... Read more...

Hospice-organizational perspectives.

30 May 2009 Hospice care has ancient origins, but its modern history has included a resurgence since the 1960s. Coverage of hospice care by Medicare and other insurers has helped it develop into an important part of today's health care system. Nevertheless, ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hospice Care - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Investigating factors associated with nurses' attitudes towards perinatal bereavement care: a study in Shandong and Hong Kong. 30 Jul 2009
• The challenges of caring for an incarcerated patient. 30 May 2009
• Technology and home care: implementing systems to enhance aging in place. 30 May 2009
• Hospice-organizational perspectives. 30 May 2009
• Palliative care in the home: an Aotearoa New Zealand perspective. 30 Mar 2009
• Experience with implementation of a quality improvement project for the care of nursing home residents. 30 Mar 2009
• Exploration of nurse practitioner practice with clients who are grieving. 30 Mar 2009
• Prioritization of future research topics for children's hospice care by its key stakeholders: a Delphi study. 18 Mar 2009
• A means to an end: a web-based client management system in palliative care. 27 Feb 2009
• Patterns of community-based end-of-life care in rural areas of the United States. 30 Jan 2009
• Integrative therapies in hospice and home health: introduction and adoption. 30 Jan 2009
• Bricolage: making do with what is at hand. 30 Dec 2008
• Developing an end-of-life care pathway to improve nurses' bereavement care. 30 Dec 2008
• Literacy and healthcare: the challenge of communication in home healthcare and hospice. 30 Dec 2008
• Assessing caregivers for team interventions (ACT): a new paradigm for comprehensive hospice quality care. 28 Dec 2008
• Developing a pediatric palliative care program: addressing the lack of baseline expenditure information. 29 Nov 2008
• Children affected by genetic conditions in end-of-life care. Part 1: Development of a study. 29 Nov 2008
• Use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) by Washington State hospices. 29 Nov 2008
• Ethical issues for hospice volunteers. 29 Nov 2008
• Design of care: the hospice visit. 30 Oct 2008

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Technical information about 'Hospice Care'

Definition: Specialized health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing patients and their families with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting patients' immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialized facilities (HOSPICES), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)

Descriptor UI: D017051

Alternative terms: Hospice Care; Care, Hospice; Hospice Programs; Hospice Program; Program, Hospice; Programs, Hospice; Bereavement Care; Care, Bereavement;

Related Mesh Headings: Respite Care;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.905.400; N02.421.585.905.400;

History Note: 92

Technical Notes: for the dying; /psychol permitted