Providing Hospice Care to Children and Young Adults

Exploring the experiences and perspectives of families using a children's hospice and professionals providing hospice care to identify future research priorities for children's hospice care.

The main objective of this study is to generate a list of priority topics for children's hospice care research in Scotland from the perspective of its key stakeholders. The method consists of qualitative semi-structured interviews with families using hospice services (n = 5), four focus groups with hospice staff and volunteers (n = 44) and telephone interviews with professionals associated with...

Providing medical care for children.

That 'enterprise' which brings the benefits of medical science to the British, the National Health Service (NHS), is undergoing a managerial reorganisation. The overall objectives of the 'health service industry' are stated in the white paper. Good management requires that there is something in it for those who own the 'factory' and something for the 'workers'. The owners also happen to be the ...

Survey method of health care providing to children less than one year in health ‎departments

Introduction: Health care providing to children with optimal quality is part of maternal and ‎child health program that its quality performance causes reduced mortality, complication and ‎health maintenance. Thus evaluating these care and promotion of health care providers, ‎performance and its quality certainly will have effective role in maternal child well – being‏.&rlm...

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...