DJ Casarett, TE Quill - Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007 - Am Coll Physicians Hospice programs offer unique benefits for patients who are near the end of life
and their families, and growing evidence indicates that hospice can provide
high-quality care. Despite these benefits, many patients do not enroll in ... Cited by 25 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 15 versions
DM Mintzer, K Zagrabbe - American Journal of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, 2007 - ajh.sagepub.com 2 decades have seen a rapid increase in the number of treatments for systemic
solid tumors and hematologic malignancies, including new cytotoxic
chemotherapies as well as monoclonal antibodies and molecularly targeted ... Cited by 9 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 2 versions
MT WeckMann - Am Fam Physician, 2008 - geriatrics.uthscsa.edu Hospice Philosophy hospice is built around the key concept that the dying
patient has physical, psychologi- cal, social, and spiritual aspects of
suffering. hospice is a philosophy, not a specific place, and can be ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - View as HTML - All 6 versions
- ►nih.gov JS Haas, CC Earle, JE Orav, P Brawarsky, BA … - Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2007 - Springer Page 1. Lower Use of Hospice by Cancer Patients who Live in Minority Versus
White Areas Jennifer S. Haas, MD, MSPH 1 , Craig C. Earle ... Cited by 11 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 5 versions
SL Jarosek, BA Virnig, R Feldman - Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, 2009 - Elsevier Hospice care is designed to provide a variety of services, including pain and
symptom management, to terminally ill patients. Although palliative radiotherapy
(PRT) has been shown to be effective in reducing pain and other symptoms ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - All 15 versions
EK McGorty, BH Bornstein - Journal of Evaluation in Clinical Practice, 2003 - digitalcommons.unl.edu Given the rising costs of acute hospital care and the in- creasing number of
elderly patients with terminal dis- eases, hospice has become and will continue
to be a crucial component of end-of-life health care (Thal- huber 1995; ... Cited by 30 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 7 versions
- ►hospicegso.org [PDF] SR Connor, B Pyenson, K Fitch, C Spence, K … - Journal of pain and symptom management, 2007 - Elsevier There is a widespread belief by some health care providers and the wider
community that medications used to alleviate symptoms may hasten death in
hospice patients. Conversely, there is a clinical impression among hospice ... Cited by 40 - Related articles - All 33 versions
- ►hospicevolunteerassociation.org [PDF] AA Wright, IT Katz - New England Journal of Medicine, 2007 - content.nejm.org More Americans are choosing hospice for end-of-life care, but ironically,
hospice patients increasingly are forced to give up effective palliative
treatments along with aggressive medical intervention. For Joanne Doolin, a ... Cited by 24 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 6 versions
L Brickner, K Scannell, S Marquet, L Ackerson - Journal of Palliative medicine, 2004 - liebertonline.com Introduction: Many proponents of hospice care believe that this service is
underutilized. Objective: To determine physicians' perceptions of hospice
utilization and of their own hos- pice referral pattern; their perceived ... Cited by 43 - Related articles - BL Direct - All 3 versions
DJ Casarett - Virtual Mentor, 2006 - Am Med Assoc Mr. Williams was admitted to the hospital with febrile neutropenia, a common
complication for patients receiving aggressive chemotherapy. He had been
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