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Hospice Care - Standards
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Definition of 'Hospice Care'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) |
Saturday, November 21, 2009
Addressing the need for public reporting of comparative hospice quality: a focus group study.
30 Jul 2009 
BACKGROUND: Standardized measures are available to assess hospice quality across multiple domains, but no information on hospice quality is available to the public. A study was conducted in 2006 to explore the public's knowledge, beliefs, and ... Read more...
End-of-life care in heart failure.
29 Apr 2009 The clinical syndrome of heart failure is increasing in prevalence, as is the number of elderly persons with heart failure. Increasing frailty and progression of heart failure in large numbers of patients means clinicians are increasingly challenged ... Read more...
30 Dec 2008 OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to develop and pretest a questionnaire to assess the practice of withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in the NICU on the basis of the experiences of bereaved parents. METHODS: We conducted ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Hospice Care - Standards'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- Addressing the need for public reporting of comparative hospice quality: a focus group study. 30 Jul 2009
- The new hospice interpretive guidelines: are hospice providers compliant?
30 May 2009 - End-of-life care in heart failure. 29 Apr 2009
- Physician-assisted dying--what would Aristotle do? 27 Feb 2009
- Hotel California. 27 Feb 2009
- Construction of a parent-derived questionnaire to measure end-of-life care after withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment in the neonatal intensive care unit. 30 Dec 2008
- 'Death with dignity'. 29 Nov 2008
- Causes of death amongst French patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: a prospective study. 30 Oct 2008
- The influence of the newly formed hospice and palliative medicine subspecialty on radiation oncology and end-of-life care. 30 Oct 2008
- Exploring the experiences and perspectives of families using a children's hospice and professionals providing hospice care to identify future research priorities for children's hospice care. 4 Oct 2008
- Assisted suicide and euthanasia should not be practiced in palliative care units. 29 Sep 2008
- Palliative care professionals contribute to state legislative and policy initiatives. 29 Sep 2008
- Predicting emergency room visits and hospitalizations among hospice patients with cardiac disease. 29 Sep 2008
- A call to action: hospice and palliative medicine board certification. 30 Aug 2008
- CMS Hospice Expert Panel shares top 10 hospice deficiencies. 30 Jul 2008
- Preparing for the hospice and palliative medicine certification examination. 29 Jun 2008
- Improving Palliative care. Interview by Scott D Smith. 29 Jun 2008
- Consensus guideline on parenteral methadone use in pain and palliative care. 30 May 2008
- Dog with a bone. 30 May 2008
- An official American Thoracic Society clinical policy statement: palliative care for patients with respiratory diseases and critical illnesses.
13 Apr 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