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Timing of referral to hospice and quality of care: length of stay and bereaved family members' perceptions of the timing of hospice referral.
Previous research has noted that many persons are referred to hospice in the last days of life. The National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization collaborated with Brown Medical School to create the Family Evaluation of Hospice Care (FEHC) data repository. In 2005, 106,514 surveys from 631 hospices were submitted with complete data on the hospice length of stay and bereaved family member pe...
متن کاملThe hospice referral.
Commentary Hospice is a program of care and support for persons facing life-limiting illnesses. Hospice care involves a team-oriented approach to medical care, pain management, and emotional and spiritual support expressly tailored to the patient’s needs and wishes.1 Most caregivers and families of patients who have received hospice care report that they would have welcomed more information abo...
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PURPOSE Given concerns about end-of-life care for many nursing home (NH) residents, this study sought to understand factors influencing hospice referral or nonreferral as well as timing of referral. DESIGN AND METHODS We conducted semistructured interviews with personnel from seven participating NHs and two hospices. We interviewed NH directors of nursing regarding facility referral practices...
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BACKGROUND Although physicians state that patients ideally should receive hospice care for 3 months before death, the majority of patients survive < 1 month in hospice care. In the current study, the authors attempted to determine whether the attributes of referring physicians were associated with the survival of terminally ill cancer patients in hospice. METHODS Using a prospective cohort st...
متن کاملQuality of information on hospice referral.
Good quality referral information provides hospice staff with essential information at a time when patients are particularly vulnerable. An Ideal Referral Criteria tool for measuring the quality of general practitioners' information was piloted at one hospice site. Overall inter-rater reliability was 90%, with individual categories ranging from 19% to 34%. Cronbach's alpha was 0.35. Further psy...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Home Health Care Management & Practice
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1084-8223,1552-6739
DOI: 10.1177/1084822308323440