Hospice Care

Known as: Hospice, care end of life, End of Life Care

The active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment. The goal of palliative care is achievement of the best…

National Institutes of Health

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2012

Abstract Nursing educators must ensure that nursing students have basic competency in providing end-of-life care prior to…

2005

2002

1999

As the title suggests this book is primarily aimed at people facing life-limiting disease. The author sargue that with increased…

1997

Advance directives, which allow a person to record preferences for end-of-life care in case of incapacity, have been underused in…

1996

Families and surrogates sometimes use religious themes to justify their insistence on aggressive end-of-life care. Their hope…

Review

1988

Review

1988

This follow-up survey to a study into the cost of providing hospice inpatient care in 1984, examines in detail the cost profiles…

1986

ABSTRACTA large study of the stress experienced by caregivers working with the critically ill and dying was undertaken. This…

1986

1970