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Hospice [PDF]

, 2020
National Cancer Institute
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Communication of palliative care needs in discharge letters from hospice providers to primary care: a multisite sequential explanatory mixed methods study

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background The provision of palliative care is increasing, with many people dying in community-based settings. It is essential that communication is effective if and when patients transition from hospice to community palliative care.
Katharine Weetman, Jeremy Dale, Sarah J. Mitchell, Claire Ferguson, Anne M. Finucane, Peter Buckle, Elizabeth Arnold, Gemma Clarke, Despoina-Elvira Karakitsiou, Tracey McConnell, Nikhil Sanyal, Anna Schuberth, Georgia Tindle, Rachel Perry, Bhajneek Grewal, Katarzyna A. Patynowska, John I. MacArtney   +16 more
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Who needs and continues to need paediatric palliative care? An evaluation of utility and feasibility of the Paediatric Palliative Screening scale (PaPaS)

BMC Palliative Care, 2020
Background While the populations of children who can benefit from paediatric palliative care (PPC) have been broadly defined, identifying individual patients to receive PPC has been problematic in practice.
Poh Heng Chong, Janice Soo, Zhi Zheng Yeo, Raymond Qishun Ang, Celene Ting   +4 more
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Hospice care utilisation among elderly patients who died with hepatocellular carcinoma in the United States

JHEP Reports, 2021
Background & Aims: The benefits of hospice care in Medicare recipients with hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have not been fully evaluated, which we aimed to study. Methods: We used nationally representative samples of the Medicare beneficiaries in the
Victor de Avila, James M. Paik, Leyla de Avila, Linda Henry, Denise Mohess, Alva Roche-Green, Zobair M. Younossi   +6 more
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Designing the Hospice of the future: Developing a partnership with the next generation

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Introduction: Community engagement is essential to co-design new models of integrated, people-centred health services. Young people and adolescents form a significant population of the community; however their input is often overlooked when designing ...
Lonan Oldam, Lottie Morris, Giovanna Cruz, Lynsey Christian, Hollie Quaye, Gillian Street   +5 more
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Cognition and attitudes of hospice care among healthcare providers: a case study of Sichuan Province

BMC Medical Education, 2023
Background Under the background of the increasing aging population and cancer burden in China, the role of hospice care has become increasingly prominent.
Meng Ling, Pengru Chen, Qiaoying He, Yi Long, Lei Cheng, Chuan You   +5 more
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Impact of a hospice rapid response service on preferred place of death, and costs [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Many people with a terminal illness would prefer to die at home. A new palliative rapid response service (RRS) provided by a large hospice provider in South East England was evaluated (2010) to provide evidence of impact on achieving ...
A Grady, B Gomes, B Gomes, B Pham, C Butler, C Butler, Caragh Flannery, Claire Butler, Department of Health, DN Guerriere, G Grande, G King, GE Grande, GE Grande, GE Grande, Heather Gage, IJ Higginson, IJ Higginson, J Townsend, JA Cosgrift, JP Raftery, L Stosz, Laura M. Holdsworth, M Mantz, National Council Palliative Care, National Health Service End of Life Programme, O Tamar, Peter Williams, R Addicott, R Addicott, R Gandy, S Smith, Y Asada   +32 more
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Hospice Care Pilot Program Independently Pioneered by Community Health Centers in Shanghai: a Cross-sectional Survey [PDF]

Zhongguo quanke yixue, 2022
Background Survival assessment, psychological counseling and other services included in the comprehensive hospice care program conform to the hospice care philosophy, and may be independently delivered to patients to satisfy their needs in a pioneering ...
Xueying LI, Limei JING, Yifan XU, Tianshu CHU, Yunjia ZHAO, Ruiyang CHEN, Xiaohan TENG, Shuijing LI
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The place of volunteering in palliative care [PDF]

, 2012
This chapter discusses the place and development of volunteering in palliative care in the context of hospice service provision in the UK. It draws on recent qualitative research undertaken in a large hospice in England.
Watts, Jacqueline H.
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Equity of access to adult hospice inpatient care within north-west England. [PDF]

, 2004
There is a growing debate about the question of equity of access to hospice and palliative care services. Even countries with relatively well developed palliative care systems are considered to have problems of access and inequity of provision.
Clark, D., Gatrell, Anthony C., Wood, D. J.   +2 more
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