Hospice: Complete Care for the Terminally Ill |
Contents
Problems in the Care of the Dying Patient | 1 |
The Church Hospital Hospice Experience | 13 |
General Features of Hospice Care | 29 |
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acceptance admission advanced malignancy analgesics anti-tumor therapy approach appropriate attending physician attention bereavement Breindel cancer caregiver chaplain Church Hospital hospice clinical nurse practitioner co-ordination cost cure dealing death decision decubitus ulcers dosage dying patient dysphagia effective enter the program experience family members helpful home care home health hospice and non-hospice hospice care program hospice care team hospice concept hospice patients hospice physician hospice principles hospice program hospice staff hospice team hospice workers hospital-based program hypercalcemia important individual informed consent inpatient involved Laetrile malignant disease measures medical staff ment metastasis mithramycin morphine non-hospice patients nurse practitioner nursing unit outpatient pain palliation palliative palliative care particularly patient and family personnel physical physical therapist possible problems reimbursement require responsibility role situation social worker staff members staff stress team members techniques terminally ill patients therapeutic therapist tion treatment tumor understanding usually visits volunteers