Quality of Hospice Care

Occupational Therapy In Hospice Care ( hospice , locus of control , occupation , quality of life )

As hospice care becomes more integrated in the overall health care delivery system, the profession of occupational therapy needs to analyze further its potential within this unique system. This article briefly discusses the goals and philosophy of the hospice concept from the perspective of the National Hospice Organization. Occupational therapy intervention in terminal care is examined, with e...

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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...

Patients’ perceptions of palliative care quality in hospice inpatient care, hospice day care, palliative units in nursing homes, and home care: a cross-sectional study

BACKGROUND Patients' perceptions of care quality within and across settings are important for the further development of palliative care. The aim was to investigate patients' perceptions of palliative care quality within settings, including perceptions of care received and their subjective importance, and contrast palliative care quality across settings. METHOD A cross-sectional study includi...

Characteristics of hospice care users: data from the 1996 National Home and Hospice Care Survey.

OBJECTIVE This report presents numbers and percents of hospice care current patients and discharges by characteristics of the agencies from which the care was received, patient and discharge characteristics, services provided, types of personnel that provided the services, admission diagnoses, and procedures. METHODS The data used for this report are from the National Center for Health Statis...