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Hospice Care - Statistics & numerical data
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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) |
Monday, November 23, 2009
30 Mar 2009 
BACKGROUND: Home care provided by the Lódz Hospice for Children increases the patients' feeling of security and improves their quality of life. METHODS: The program provides free, around-the-clock, holistic care within a radius of 120 km, in ... Read more...
Clinical pathology differences in laboratory utilization in hospice and nonhospice units.
30 Mar 2009 A significant difference can be observed between hospice and nonhospice philosophy. Nonhospice units direct its effort to cure and sustain patient's life using disease-modifying therapeutic procedures, while hospice units focus on patient's quality ... Read more...
27 Feb 2009 During the years of communist rule in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), there were few significant palliative care developments. Since the political changes of the 1990s, however, ... Read more...
Latest indexed articles for 'Hospice Care - Statistics & numerical data'
These are the very latest articles for this heading:
- [Home mechanical ventilation] 30 Mar 2009
- Clinical pathology differences in laboratory utilization in hospice and nonhospice units. 30 Mar 2009
- Hospice in North Carolina.
27 Feb 2009 - Barriers to the development of palliative care in the countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. 27 Feb 2009
- Blood exposure incidence rates from the North Carolina study of home care and hospice nurses. 30 Jan 2009
- Motivations of hospice volunteers. 21 Jan 2009
- [Palliative and hospice care in the Czech Republic and in Europe] 30 Dec 2008
- Medication reconciliation in hospice: a pilot study. 27 Dec 2008
- The potential use of autopsy for continuous quality improvement in hospice and palliative care.
21 Dec 2008 - Communication dynamics in hospice teams: understanding the role of the chaplain in interdisciplinary team collaboration. 29 Nov 2008
- Racial and ethnic differences in end-of-life care in fee-for-service Medicare beneficiaries with advanced cancer. 19 Nov 2008
- Design of care: the hospice visit. 30 Oct 2008
- Physical symptoms of children receiving pediatric hospice care at home during the last week of life. 30 Oct 2008
- Is it feasible and desirable to collect voluntarily quality and outcome data nationally in palliative oncology care? 8 Aug 2008
- Reliability and validity of the Hospice Quality of Life Scale for Korean cancer patients. 6 Aug 2008
- End-of-life care in U.S. nursing homes: nursing homes with special programs and trained staff for hospice or palliative/end-of-life care. 29 Jun 2008
- Barriers to pain management: caregiver perceptions and pain talk by hospice interdisciplinary teams. 18 May 2008
- Hospice and palliative care development in India: a multimethod review of services and experiences. 16 Apr 2008
- A primer on hospice for the internist. 30 Mar 2008
- Psychiatric issues in palliative care: recognition of depression in patients enrolled in hospice care. 28 Feb 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