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Palliative Care

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Quality Measures for Symptoms and Advance Care Planning in Cancer: A Systematic Review
Uses a literature search to identify quality measures for palliative cancer care and the evidence to support their use in pain, dyspnea, depression, and advance care planning, and to ascertain research gaps.
Jan 1, 2006
Journal Article
End-of-life Care: An Agenda for Policy Improvement
Current arrangements for health care in the US do not address the needs of a growing population that has serious, eventually fatal chronic illness.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
End-of-life Options
At the end of life, most face frailty and dementia, with slowly ebbing capabilities.
Jan 1, 2005
Report
Living Long in Fragile Health: The New Demographics Shape End of Life Care
The author lays out the framework of an approach to reform for the health care system so that people can live well while very sick and dying.
Jan 1, 2005
Journal Article
Accommodating Ethnic Diversity: A Study of California Hospice Programs
Studies have confirmed ethnic disparities in the use of hospice services and identified barriers that minorities face in accessing care.
Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article
The 2004 Presidential Candidates' Platforms on Serious Chronic Illness and Palliative Care
The authors summarize the relevant parts of each Democratic presidential candidates platform, along with President Bushs stance.
Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article
Hospice Care Raises Medicare Costs for Last Year of Life
Patients who choose hospice care cost the federal Medicare system more than patients who use only traditional medical care, a finding that is contrary to traditional views that hospice care is less costly to provide.
Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article
Oregon's Lessons for Improving Advance Care Planning
Discusses Oregon's Physicians orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form.
Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article
Interdisciplinary Education: Evaluation of a Palliative Care Training Intervention for Pre-Professionals
This study developed and evaluated an innovative interdisciplinary educational program in palliative care designed to promote interdisciplinary exchange and understanding.
Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article
Bridging the Divide: Integrating Cancer-Directed Therapy and Palliative Care
Although great strides have been made in cancer therapy, half of all patients diagnosed with cancer will die of their disease, and just under one-third of these deaths occur within 6 months of diagnosis.
Jan 1, 2004
Journal Article
Disaster Planning: Making Decisions in Advance for Very Sick Patients
Advanced care planning to avoid unwanted care at the end of life remains a low priority in patient care.
Jan 1, 2003
Journal Article
Charity for the Dying: Who Receives Unreimbursed Hospice Care?
Many deaths occur among persons without insurance coverage for hospice care.
Jan 1, 2003
Journal Article
In Summary: Describing Death in America : What We Need to Know
Report brief recommends ways to fill the information gaps by better use of existing nationally-representative data, and through some new measures, in particular, a new, ongoing National Mortality Followback Survey.
Jan 1, 2003
Journal Article
Cash and Compassion: Profit Status and the Delivery of Hospice Services
To evaluate the relationship of hospice profit status to patient selection and service delivery.
Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article
The 107th Congress' Legislative Proposals Concerning End-of-Life Care
Urgency of policy reform and lack of means to achieve reform calls for consensus and leadership from those concerned with hospice and palliative care.
Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article
Age and Gender Differences in Health Care Utilization and Spending for Medicare Beneficiaries in Their Last Years of Life
Men's and women's health care experiences differ as they age.
Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article
A Commentary: Where to Live While Dying
Authors commentary on care at the end of life.
Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article
Reforming Care for Persons Near the End of Life: The Promise of Quality Improvement
Most people in developed countries will live with a serious, eventually fatal, chronic condition for months or years before dying.
Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article
Systems of Care: Future Reform
Major new ideas and opportunities shape the direction of reform in serving those coming to the end of life.
Jan 1, 2002
Journal Article
Vulnerable People: Practical Rejoinders to Claims in Favor of Assisted Suicide
Argues that nine of the most common and most compelling arguments for legalizing physician-assisted suicide are unpersuasive or misleading.
Jan 1, 2002

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