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BMC Health Services Research, 2018 Background The Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Hospital Quality Alliance began collecting and reporting United States hospital performance in the treatment of pneumonia and heart failure in 2008. Whether the utilization of hospice
Soowhan Lah +6 more
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Comparison of the Hospice Systems in the United States, Japan and Taiwan
Asian Nursing Research, 2010 The aim of hospice care is to provide the best possible quality of life both for people approaching the end of life and for their families and carers. The Korean government has been implementing a pilot project for hospital hospice services and trying to
Chung Yul Lee, RN, PhD +7 more
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Predicting 7-day survival using heart rate variability in hospice patients with non-lung cancers. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 BACKGROUND: A simple and accurate survival prediction tool can facilitate decision making processes for hospice patients with advanced cancers. The objectives of this study were to explore the association of cardiac autonomic functions and survival in ...
Jui-Kun Chiang +3 more
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Health and Social Care Delivery Research, 2022 Background: Many people prefer to die at home when the time comes. Hospice at home services aim to support patients to achieve this. A range of hospice at home services exist; some services have been evaluated, but there has been limited evidence ...
Claire Butler +13 more
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Hospice care as humanized end-of-life care
Salud Colectiva, 2021 This study aims to analyze end-of-life care practices carried out at a hospice institution located in the province of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Based on a qualitative research methodology, ethnographic fieldwork was carried out between 2016 and 2020 ...
Darío Iván Radosta
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Status, demand and practice models of palliative day-care clinics and day hospices: a scoping review [PDF]
BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care, 2021 Background Little is known about the structure, accessibility, service provision and needs of palliative and hospice day-care in Germany and abroad. Researchers, healthcare providers and policy makers would benefit from a systematic overview. Aim
Teresa Terjung +3 more
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Effect of COVID-19 pandemic on outcomes in intracerebral hemorrhage
PLoS ONE, 2023 Objectives Patients with severe intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) often suffer from impaired capacity and rely on surrogates for decision-making. Restrictions on visitors within healthcare facilities during the pandemic may have impacted care and ...
Daryl C. McHugh +5 more
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Challenges for palliative care day services: a focus group study
BMC Palliative Care, 2021 Background Palliative care day services provide a safe environment for people with palliative care needs, enabling them to access a range of services while acting as a respite services for family caregivers.
Felicity Hasson +9 more
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Variation in Patients' Hospice Costs
Inquiry: The Journal of Health Care Organization, Provision, and Financing, 2008 We obtained patient-level cost data from one hospice to explore variation in hospice costs across patients. We found that average per day costs decreased as duration of hospice stay increased.
Haiden A. Huskamp +3 more
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