منابع مشابه
Barriers to Access to Palliative Care
Despite significant advances in understanding the benefits of early integration of palliative care with disease management, many people living with a chronic life-threatening illness either do not receive any palliative care service or receive services only in the last phase of their illness. In this article, I explore some of the reasons for failure to provide palliative care services and reco...
متن کاملBarriers to Palliative Care.
BACKGROUND: Palliative care is received by a small number of patients with terminal illness, most of them with cancer. METHODS: Data are reviewed and evaluated that relate to the barriers and problems that limit access of patients to appropriate palliative and/or hospice care. RESULTS: Palliative care generally is not well integrated into the health care system. Access is limited, and many heal...
متن کاملOvercoming Barriers to Palliative Care Consultation.
Palliative care consultations for patients with life-threatening illnesses provide benefits for the patients and their families as well as for the health care team. Patients have better quality of life and live longer but cost the health care system less. Still, many patients are not offered the opportunity to receive a palliative care consultation. Barriers to palliative care consultation for ...
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OBJECTIVE To assess challenges in providing palliative care in long-term care (LTC) facilities from the perspective of medical directors. DESIGN Cross-sectional mailed survey. A questionnaire was developed, reviewed, pilot-tested, and sent to 450 medical directors representing 531 LTC facilities. Responses were rated on 2 different 5-point scales. Descriptive analyses were conducted on all re...
متن کاملLanguage barriers and access to care.
The purpose of this chapter is to examine how language barriers contribute to health disparities among ethnic and racial minorities in the United States. A literature search was systematically conducted using selected computer databases (MEDLINE and CINAHL). Searches were limited to English-language-published research in the years from 1985 to 2003. A total of 47 published articles were include...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Palliative Care: Research and Treatment
سال: 2017
ISSN: 1178-2242,1178-2242
DOI: 10.1177/1178224216688887