Choices in Palliative Care Issues in Health Care Delivery /
The average person lives with chronic disease for three to six years. Nine out of ten deaths in America are caused by chronic illness. Half of all care of HIV/AIDS patients is defined as palliative care. Keeping up with these statistics means improving on traditional concepts of palliative care to m...
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer US : Imprint: Springer,
2007.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2007. |
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| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70875-1 |
Table of Contents:
- Palliative Care in Acute Care Hospitals
- Palliative Care in Nursing Facilities
- Patient-Centered Palliative Care in the Home
- Hospice Care
- The Role of Cancer Rehabilitation in the Maintenance of Functional Integrity and Quality of Life
- HIV/AIDS and Palliative Care: Models of Care and Policy Issues
- Palliative Care and Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease
- Palliative Care and Chronic Heart Failure
- Palliative Care for Patients with Alzheimer's Dementia: Advance Care Planning Across Transition Points
- Children and Issues Around Palliative Care
- Palliative Care and the Elderly: Complex Case Management
- The Business of Palliative Medicine: Business Planning, Models of Care and Program Development
- Palliative Care and Quality Management: The Core Principles of Quality Improvement and their Utility in Designing Clinical Programs for End of Life Care and Complex Case Management Models
- Ethics and the Delivery of Palliative Care.