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Hospice Care
Known as:
Hospice
, care end of life
, End of Life Care
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The active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment. The goal of palliative care is achievement of the best…Â
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Bereavement Care
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Hospice Programs
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Highly Cited
2013
Highly Cited
2013
Change in end-of-life care for Medicare beneficiaries: site of death, place of care, and health care transitions in 2000, 2005, and 2009.
Joan M. Teno
,
Pedro L Gozalo
,
+6 authors
Vincent Mor
JAMA
2013
IMPORTANCE A recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report found that more persons die at home. This has been cited as…Â
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Highly Cited
2012
Highly Cited
2012
American Society of Clinical Oncology provisional clinical opinion: the integration of palliative care into standard oncology care.
Thomas J. Smith
,
Sarah Temin
,
+11 authors
Jamie Hayden Von Roenn
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal…
2012
PURPOSE An American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) provisional clinical opinion (PCO) offers timely clinical direction to…Â
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Highly Cited
2010
Highly Cited
2010
The impact of advance care planning on end of life care in elderly patients: randomised controlled trial
Karen Margaret Detering
,
Andrew D Hancock
,
Michael C Reade
,
William Silvester
BMJ
2010
OBJECTIVE To investigate the impact of advance care planning on end of life care in elderly patients. DESIGN Prospective…Â
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Highly Cited
2009
Highly Cited
2009
Health care costs in the last week of life: associations with end-of-life conversations.
BaoHui Zhang
,
Alexi Anne Wright
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+6 authors
Holly Gwen Prigerson
Archives of internal medicine
2009
BACKGROUND Life-sustaining medical care of patients with advanced cancer at the end of life (EOL) is costly. Patient-physician…Â
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Highly Cited
2008
Highly Cited
2008
Recommendations for end-of-life care in the intensive care unit: a consensus statement by the American College [corrected] of Critical Care Medicine.
Robert D. Truog
,
Margaret L Campbell
,
+5 authors
D. Kaufman
Critical care medicine
2008
BACKGROUND These recommendations have been developed to improve the care of intensive care unit (ICU) patients during the dying…Â
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Trends in the aggressiveness of cancer care near the end of life.
Craig Earle
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Bridget Anne Neville
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Mary Beth Landrum
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John Z. Ayanian
,
Susan Dale Block
,
Jane C. Weeks
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal…
2004
PURPOSE To characterize the aggressiveness of end-of-life cancer treatment for older adults on Medicare, and its relationship to…Â
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Highly Cited
2003
Highly Cited
2003
The health impact of health care on families: a matched cohort study of hospice use by decedents and mortality outcomes in surviving, widowed spouses.
Nicholas A. Christakis
,
Theodore J. Iwashyna
Social science & medicine
2003
Alternative ways of caring for seriously ill patients might have implications not only for patients' own outcomes, but also…Â
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Highly Cited
2000
Highly Cited
2000
Survival of Medicare Patients after Enrollment in Hospice Programs
N ICHOLAS A. C HRISTAKIS
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J OSÉ J. E SCARCE
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Marqucs F. J. Batel Pharm. D.
2000
A BSTRACT Background Each year more than 220,000 Medicare beneficiaries receive care from hospice programs designed to enhance…Â
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Highly Cited
1999
Highly Cited
1999
Quality end-of-life care: patients' perspectives.
Peter A. Singer
,
D. K. Martin
,
Merrijoy Kelner
JAMA
1999
CONTEXT Quality end-of-life care is increasingly recognized as an ethical obligation of health care providers, both clinicians…Â
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1984
1984
A randomised controlled trial of hospice care.
Richard Kane
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Jerry Wales
,
Lori R Bernstein
,
Arleen A Leibowitz
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S. Kaplan
Lancet
1984
Terminally ill cancer patients at a Veterans Administration hospital were randomly assigned to receive hospice or conventional…Â
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