Effective Collaborative Communication in Hospice Care

Effective Collaborative Communication in Hospice Care

Communication can be both verbal and nonverbal with subtypes that can include positive and negative communication, open and closed communication as well as effective and ineffective communication. Communication is defined as “a process by which information is exchanged between individuals through a ommon system of symbols, signs or behavior” (http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/communicat...

Effective Communication in Virtual Adversarial Collaborative Communities

Effective communication helps communities to achieve common goals, but is especially hard to achieve in virtual adversarial collaborative communities. In these communities, the matching of widely differing objectives as well as interests is very complex. We study a case of a virtual adversarial collaborative community in which the common goal was to author reports assessing the amount of true c...

Hospice care.

Measuring hospice care: the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization National Hospice Data Set.

Hospice has seen rapid growth in recent years, but there is a lack of consistency among hospices when it comes to compliance with standards of care. Consequently, hospices vary in performance and in services they provide. With state hospice organizations, the NHPCO developed a National Data Set (NDS) intended to understand demographics, practices, and outcomes; illustrate industry effectiveness...

Barriers to effective symptom management in hospice.

The barriers to effective symptom management in hospice are not well described. We surveyed nurses of hospices affiliated with the Population-based Palliative Care Research Network (PoPCRN) to identify barriers to the effective management of common symptoms in terminally ill patients. 867/1710 (51%) nurses from 67 hospices in 25 U.S. States returned surveys. Of 32 symptoms, nurses reported agit...