HOSPICE AT HOME: OPTIMISING CARE AND ENABLING HOME DEATH

Death, Dignity, and the Significance of Home Hospice Care.

An overview of home health and hospice care patients: 1996 National Home and Hospice Care Survey.

OBJECTIVE This report presents numbers and percents of home health and hospice care agencies, their current patients, and their discharges. Agency characteristics include type of ownership, region, certification, location, and affiliation. Patient and discharge characteristics include age, sex, race, marital status admission diagnoses, and procedures. METHODS The data used for this report are...

"My Preference would be to be at Home": Patients' Experiences of their Hospice at Home Care

A specialist 'Hospice at Home' (HaH) service commenced in 2006 in Mid West Ireland whereby participants received palliative care from a specialist team in their own home. An independent team was commissioned to evaluate the key stakeholders' perspectives of this service including patients, carers and staff. This original paper presents the findings from the patients receiving the HaH service. O...

Palliative ultrasound for home care hospice patients.

The evolving relationship between emergency and palliative medicine is expected to benefit patients of each. Two collaborative care encounters involving home hospice patients are discussed. Portable bedside ultrasound was performed in the home to diagnose ascites and to guide palliative paracentesis. Specific interventions and outcomes are reported. The interface of emergency and palliative car...

General practice Does hospital at home for palliative care facilitate death at home? Randomised controlled trial

Objective To evaluate the impact on place of death of a hospital at home service for palliative care. Design Pragmatic randomised controlled trial. Setting Former Cambridge health district. Participants 229 patients referred to the hospital at home service; 43 randomised to control group (standard care), 186 randomised to hospital at home. Intervention Hospital at home versus standard care. Mai...