Hospice Care
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Last-resort options for palliative sedation.

13 Sep 2009 Despite receiving state-of-the-art palliative care, some patients still experience severe suffering toward the end of life. Palliative sedation is a potential way to respond to such suffering, but access is uneven and unpredictable, in part because ... Read more...

Implementing end of life care for patients with renal failure.

30 Aug 2009 Traditional palliative care services have focused on individuals with cancer. The NHS National End of Life Care Programme, launched in December 2003, has been working to address this anomaly and to try to enhance end of life care provision for other ... Read more...

Medicare program; hospice wage index for fiscal year 2010. Final rule.

4 Aug 2009 This final rule will set forth the hospice wage index for fiscal year 2010. The final rule adopts a MedPAC recommendation regarding a process for certification and recertification of terminal illness. In addition, this final rule will also revise ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Hospice Care'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Proposed FDA rules on painkillers in U.S. Rile cancer community. 29 Sep 2009
• Unexpected urine drug testing results in a hospice patient on high-dose morphine therapy. 29 Sep 2009
• Last-resort options for palliative sedation. 13 Sep 2009
• The death of Ivan Ilyich and pain relief at the end of life. 10 Sep 2009
• Implementing end of life care for patients with renal failure. 30 Aug 2009
• Medicare program; hospice wage index for fiscal year 2010. Final rule. 4 Aug 2009
• Will our baby be alive again? Supporting parents of young children when a baby dies. 30 Jul 2009
• Investigating factors associated with nurses' attitudes towards perinatal bereavement care: a study in Shandong and Hong Kong. 30 Jul 2009
• Addressing the need for public reporting of comparative hospice quality: a focus group study. 30 Jul 2009
• Sexuality and life-threatening illness: implications for social work and palliative care. 30 Jul 2009
• Symptom occurrence and associated clinical factors in nursing home residents with cancer. 30 Jul 2009
• Extending computer technology to hospice research: interactive pentablet measurement of symptoms by hospice cancer patients in their homes. 29 Jun 2009
• Paws and relax: one hospice's pet therapy journey. 29 Jun 2009
• U.S. hospice benefits. 29 Jun 2009
• Current funding and financing issues in the Australian hospice and palliative care sector. 29 Jun 2009
• [A workshop on touch-relaxation for health personnel] 29 Jun 2009
• Making the transition to hospice: exploring hospice professionals' perspectives. 29 Jun 2009
• Portraits of caregivers of end-stage dementia patients receiving hospice care. 29 Jun 2009
• A new era of for-profit hospice care--the Medicare benefit. 23 Jun 2009
• Hospice family caregivers' quality of life. 15 Jun 2009

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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