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Hospice and Managed Care

The Hospice Journal, 1997
Managed care is having a significant effect on the delivery of hospice care. A primary concern facing hospices is that reimbursement rates will likely either remain stable or fall. This suggests that competition between health care networks will lead to mergers and the closing of some hospices.
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Children's hospice care

Death Studies, 1992
This article seeks to define the principles that are at the heart of the concept of children's hospice care and to indicate the wide range of activities to which that concept is relevant. The discussion is organized around five main points: 1) an analysis of that which is distinctive of the hospice philosophy or hospice-like approaches to care; 2) a ...
C A, Corr, D M, Corr
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Advances in Hospice Care

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1997
Hospice care developed in part as a reaction to the impersonal and technology-dependent end-of-life care offered by modern medicine. Unique approaches to care that emphasize interdisciplinary team management of troublesome symptoms and the promotion of quality of life as defined by the patient, are finding their way into all aspects of health care ...
J Y, Leland, R S, Schonwetter
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Hospice Care in America

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1990
Hospice care, an appropriate way of caring for many terminally ill patients, now is reimbursed by Medicare and other insurance systems. However, access to hospice care is limited by unavailability, ignorance, Medicare regulations, and internally imposed restrictions.
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Women and Hospice Care

Women & Health, 1987
The hospice movement has grown extensively in the last ten years. This article examines the role of women in hospice, components of hospice care and a profile of 544 admissions to an inpatient hospice unit over a five year period. Case studies are given to illustrate the needs of women in hospice.
J, Hach, S A, Wilson
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Home Hospice Care

Clinics in Geriatric Medicine, 1991
Home hospice care, which helps patients with terminal illnesses remain at home, is becoming more common and accepted in the United States. The Medicare hospice benefit reimburses hospices for the care of elderly patients. The goal of hospices is to help the patient and family remain in control of the dying process as much as possible.
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Hospice day care

American Journal of Hospice Care, 1990
Hospice day care is a cost-effective way to expand the range of services available to hospice patients and families. Additionally, day care can increase continuity of care between in-patient and homecare settings, and-ease the burden of responsibility on the homecare component of hospice.
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Hospice and palliative care

Disease-a-Month, 1995
The emergence of AIDS and the aging of the population, with the numerous malignant and debilitating maladies associated with growing older, have focused attention on the provision of cost-effective quality care by hospice and palliative care programs. Hospice and palliative care is a venerated system of care, which uses an interdisciplinary approach to
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