| Description |
xix, 188 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Series |
The Hospice journal ; v. 13 no. 1/2 |
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Hospice journal ; v. 13 no. 1/2
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| Contents |
Preface / Joanne Lynn -- Introduction / Joan K. Harrold -- I. Ars Moriendi: Illuminations on 'The Good Death' from the Arts and Humanities / Sandra Bertman -- II. Hospice: Current Practice, Future Possibilities / Anne Boling and Joanne Lynn -- III. Managed, Capitated Care: Opportunities for Good and Evil / Elise Ayers and Joan K. Harrold -- IV. Pain, Symptoms, and Suffering: Possibilities and Barriers / Joan K. Harrold -- V. Visions and Strategies: What Participants and Others Might Do / Joan K. Harrold, Elise Ayers and Joanne Lynn -- Demography and Epidemiology of Dying in the U.S. with Emphasis on Deaths of Older Persons / Dwight B. Brock and Daniel J. Foley -- A History of the Medicare Hospice Benefit / Thomas Hoyer -- Predicting Patient Survival Before and After Hospice Enrollment / Nicholas A. Christakis -- Pain and the Barriers to Its Relief at the End of Life: A Lesson for Improving End of Life Health Care / Jane M. Ingham and Kathleen M. Foley |
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Why Not the Best for the Chronically Ill? / Stanley B. Jones -- The Importance of Measuring Quality of Care at the End of Life / Molla S. Donaldson -- An Update on Efforts by the Hospice Community and the National Hospice Organization to Improve Access to Quality Hospice Care / Jay Mahoney -- Overview on ABIM End-of-Life Patient Care Project: Caring for the Dying: Identification and Promotion of Physician Competency / Linda L. Blank -- Quality End of Life Care: The Case for a MediCaring Demonstration / Joanne Lynn and Anne M. Wilkinson -- New Endeavors and Innovative Programs in End of Life Care / Anne M. Wilkinson, Joan K. Harrold and Ilona Kopits [et al.] |
| Notes |
"Has been co-published simultaneously as the Hospice journal, volume 13, number 1/2 1998." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Terminal care.
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Terminal Care.
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| Author |
Harrold, Joan K.
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Lynn, Joanne, 1951-
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| LC no. |
98010051 |
| ISBN |
0789003996 (alk. paper) |
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0789005026 (alk. paper) |
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