Titlebook: Choices in Palliative Care; Issues in Health Car Arthur E. Blank,Sean O‘Mahony,Amy Selwyn Textbook 2007 Springer-Verlag US 2007 Cancer.Deme

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Hospice Care,twenty-five years a little known program – hospice – has revolutionized at least one part of the health care system – end of life care. Hospice has become the health care system’s safety net for the last phase of life. Unfortunately, it is also the most under-utilized benefit in the American health care system.

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Palliative Care and Chronic Heart Failure, the modes of demise of patients with CHF, its major subcategories: diastolic and systolic dysfunction. We will make recommendations for appropriate timing of referral to palliative care and hospice and describe the potential benefits for the inclusion of palliative care teams in the provision of care to patients with CHF and their families.

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Textbook 2007rt IV will address broader professional issues including developing a business plan for a palliative care program; legal and ethical issues around end-of-life care; quality management; and policy issues.

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Palliative Care in Acute Care Hospitals,eed. Hospitals are faced with the challenge of meeting the needs of an increasingly older and frailer population. An American born in 2000 can expect to live to nearly 77 years old; a 65 years old can expect to live another 18 years (Federal interagency forum on aging-related statistics, 2002). In a

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Hospice Care,ople older than 85 years will double. The massive generation of baby boomers is moving rapidly toward old age, and the reality that 65 million Americans will grow old and face the end of life together over the next thirty years is cause for national alarm. At the heart of the crisis is not only, the

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HIV/AIDS and Palliative Care: Models of Care and Policy Issues,ronic disease. This pattern has been most marked in industrialized countries where the promise of HIV-specific therapies has been realized for many individuals living with HIV. However, even in the era of ’highly active antiretroviral therapy’ (HAART), AIDS remains an important cause of morbidity an

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Palliative Care and Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease,stimated at 9.3 per 1000 males and 7.3 per 1000 females (all ages). (Vital and Health Statistics, 1996; Murray and Lopez, 1997). COPD was ranked as the sixth most common cause of death worldwide in 1990, and the Global Burden of Disease Study predicted that it would become the third most common caus

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