Hospice Care
Mostrando 13-24 de 27 artigos, teses e dissertações.
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13. Hospice and euthanasia in The Netherlands: an ethical point of view.
This contribution is a report of a two months' participant observation in a Dutch hospice. The goal of the observation was to gain an overview of moral decisions in a hospice in which euthanasia, a tolerated practice in the Netherlands, is not accepted as an option. In an introduction, the development of palliative care in the Netherlands will be briefly pre
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14. The effects of hospice coverage on Medicare expenditures.
This article reports on the findings of a study of the effects of the hospice program on Medicare Part A expenditures during the first three years of the program. The analysis compared treatment costs between hospice beneficiaries and nonbenefit patients with diagnosis of malignant cancer during their last seven months of life. It was estimated that during t
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15. Hospice Care
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16. Hospice at home--a new service for patients with advanced HIV/AIDS: a pilot evaluation of referrals and outcomes.
Between 50 and 70% of patients with a terminal illness indicate a preference to remain at home for as long as possible until their death. Nevertheless, a much smaller percentage actually die at home in England and Wales. A new hospice-at-home service in North London for patients with HIV/AIDS is described in this report. Terminal care for HIV/AIDS patients c
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17. Differences across payors in charges for agency-based home health services: evidence from the National Home and Hospice Care Survey.
OBJECTIVE: To investigate charge and payment differentials for home health services across different payors. DATA SOURCES: The 1992 National Home and Hospice Care Survey, a nationally representative survey of home and hospice care agencies and their patients, collected by the National Center for Health Statistics. STUDY DESIGN: We compare the average charge
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18. Quality, Standards, Organisational and Clinical Audit for Hospice and Palliative Care Services
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19. Predictors of California nursing facilities' acceptance of people with HIV/AIDS.
OBJECTIVE: To examine factors that might predict the provision of HIV/AIDS care among California nursing facilities (NFs) in 1990. STUDY DESIGN: Logistic regression to examine the probability that a NF had admitted a person with AIDS/HIV (PWA/H). Independent variables of key interest included whether the facility was hospital-based; whether it sustained a fi
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20. Use of hospitals, physician visits, and hospice care during last six months of life among cohorts loyal to highly respected hospitals in the United States
Objective To evaluate the use of healthcare resources during the last six months of life among patients of US hospitals with strong reputations for high quality care in managing chronic illness.
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21. Learning about death: a project report from the Edinburgh University Medical School.
A report of a problem-based learning project on the ethics of terminal care, offered as one of the options available to first year MB ChB students in Edinburgh University Medical School. The project formed part of the 'clinical correlation course' in the new curriculum. Six students took part under the supervision of two clinical tutors and a moral philosoph
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22. Prevalence of Human Immunodeficiency Virus Infection in a Sample of Immigrants in the United States
EDITOR'S NOTE: Years ago, experts predicted that the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome would spread to every part of the world and every part of society. The articles by Studemeister and Kent and Calonge and co-workers* that follow are further evidence that this is happening. These and other articles we will publish in the next few months confirm our worst
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23. Palliative care in the community: setting practice guidelines for primary care teams.
BACKGROUND. Previous studies have demonstrated deficiencies in palliative care in the community. One method of translating the results of research into clinical practice, in order to produce more effective health care, is the development of clinical guidelines. Setting standards for such care has been performed by care teams in both hospital and hospice sett
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24. Appropriate place of death for cancer patients: views of general practitioners and hospital doctors.
BACKGROUND. The majority of cancer patients in the United Kingdom die in a National Health Service hospital, a setting that is contrary to the wishes of those patients expressing a preference to die elsewhere, for example at home or in a hospice. AIM. A study was undertaken to determine clinicians' views of the appropriate place of death for cancer patients