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1. Quality hospice care
: administration, organization, and models
by McDonnell, Alice
1986, ISBN 0932500366, xxii, 308
Health services administration | Hospice care | Management
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2. Quality assurance in home care and hospice organizations
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
1990, ISBN 9780866882156, viii, 141
Accreditation | Physical therapy | Hospices (Terminal care) | Home care services
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3. Compassionate communities
: case studies from Britain and Europe
by Heimerl, Katharina, editor and Kellehear, Allan, 1955- editor and Wegleitner, Klaus, editor
2016, 1, Routledge key themes in health and society, ISBN 1138832790, xvii, 221
Compassionate communities are communities that provide assistance for those in need of end of life care, separate from any official heath service provision... 
Public Policy | Hospice care | Community Health Planning | Terminal care | Palliative Care | Empathy | Community Health Services | organization & administration | Community health services | Social Work and Social Policy | End of Life and Long Term Care | Terminal Care | Community Health Planning - organization & administration | Palliative treatment
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4. Full Text National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO) Position Statement and Commentary on the Use of Palliative Sedation in Imminently Dying Terminally Ill Patients
by Kirk, Timothy W., PhD and Mahon, Margaret M., PhD, RN, FAAN and Palliative Sedation Task Force and Palliative Sedation Task Force of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization Ethics Committee
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, ISSN 0885-3924, 2010, Volume 39, Issue 5, pp. 914 - 923
Anesthesia & Perioperative Care | Pain Medicine | intractable pain | medical ethics | position statement | decision making | hospice care | Palliative sedation | terminal care | ethics | palliative care | practice guideline | DISTRESS | CLINICAL NEUROLOGY | MEDICINE, GENERAL & INTERNAL | THERAPY | HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES | LIFE | Conscious Sedation - methods | Anesthetics - therapeutic use | Terminally Ill | Stress, Psychological - drug therapy | Humans | Terminal Care - methods
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5. Full Text The Role of Palliative Care in Population Management and Accountable Care Organizations
by Smith, Grant and Bernacki, Rachelle and Block, Susan D
Journal of Palliative Medicine, ISSN 1096-6218, 06/2015, Volume 18, Issue 6, pp. 486 - 494
By 2021, health care spending is projected to grow to 19.6% of the GDP, likely crowding out spending in other areas. The 2010 Affordable Care Act (ACA)... 
Original Articles | CELL LUNG-CANCER | ADVANCE DIRECTIVES | DIALYSIS PATIENTS | HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES | CODE STATUS DOCUMENTATION | RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED-TRIAL | QUALITY-OF-LIFE | HEALTH-CARE | PANEL MANAGEMENT | SURPRISE QUESTION | COST SAVINGS | Terminal Care - economics | United States | Humans | Quality of Health Care - economics | Accountable Care Organizations - economics | Palliative Care - economics | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | Health Services Accessibility - economics | Original
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6. Full Text An Accountable Care Organization (ACO) and an Academic Medical Center's Palliative Care Team Address Workforce Needs by Integrating Care Coordinators to Assist with Hospice Referrals in an Acute Care Setting (S733)
by Fausto, James, MD and Alvarez, M. Alexander, RN and Gupta, Antonia, RN, BSN and Healy, Barbara, MBA, MPH and Matthews, Steven, BA
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, ISSN 0885-3924, 2015, Volume 49, Issue 2, pp. 424 - 425
Anesthesia & Perioperative Care | Pain Medicine | Medical centers | Palliative treatment | Hospices (Terminal care)
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7. Full Text Increased Access to Palliative Care and Hospice Services: Opportunities to Improve Value in Health Care
by DIANE E. MEIER
The Milbank Quarterly, ISSN 0887-378X, 9/2011, Volume 89, Issue 3, pp. 343 - 380
Context: A small proportion of patients with serious illness or multiple chronic conditions account for the majority of health care spending. Despite the high... 
Health care costs | Medicare | Physicians | Hospice care | Palliative care | Workforce | Chronic diseases | Death | Payment models | Diseases | hospice care | health care quality | Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act | OF-LIFE CARE | TREATMENT PREFERENCES | ADVANCED CANCER | METRICS CONSENSUS RECOMMENDATIONS | FAMILY SATISFACTION | NEAR-DEATH | MEDICAL-EDUCATION | INTERNATIONAL THINK-TANK | MENTAL-HEALTH | CLUSTER RANDOMIZED-TRIAL | HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES | HEALTH POLICY & SERVICES | United States - epidemiology | Health Services Accessibility - organization & administration | Patient-Centered Care - utilization | Humans | Quality of Health Care - organization & administration | Palliative Care - economics | Palliative Care - organization & administration | Palliative Care - utilization | Health Services Accessibility - economics | Patient-Centered Care - economics | Hospice Care - economics | Hospice Care - utilization | Chronic Disease - therapy | Quality of Life | Patient-Centered Care - organization & administration | Hospices - organization & administration | Needs Assessment - organization & administration | Hospice Care - organization & administration | Medical errors | Hospices (Terminal care) | Health care reform | Medical care | Medical law | Palliative treatment | Quality management | Health care expenditures | Health services | Quality of life | Original
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8. Ethical issues and patient rights
: across the continuum of care
Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations, author
1998, ISBN 0866885919, xi, 156 pages
Ethics, Medical | standards | Health services administration | Moral and ethical aspects | Patient Advocacy | Patient Care Management | Medical ethics
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9. Full Text Whose job? the staffing of advance care planning support in twelve international healthcare organizations: A qualitative interview study
by Dixon, Josie and Knapp, Martin
BMC Palliative Care, ISSN 1472-684X, 05/2018, Volume 17, Issue 1, pp. 78 - 16
ACP involving a facilitated conversation with a health or care professional is more effective than document completion alone. In policy, there is an... 
End of life care | Advance care planning | Social care | Healthcare workforce | Medical personnel | Terminal care | Practice | Management | Analysis | Health care | Qualitative research | Experts | Decision making | Professionals | Advance directives | Primary care | Studies | Researchers | Workforce planning | Palliative care | Patient satisfaction | Dementia | Chronic illnesses
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10. Full Text Integrating Palliative Care Into the Care of Neurocritically Ill Patients: A Report From the Improving Palliative Care in the ICU Project Advisory Board and the Center to Advance Palliative Care
by Frontera, Jennifer A and Curtis, J Randall and Nelson, Judith E and Campbell, Margaret and Gabriel, Michelle and Mosenthal, Anne C and Mulkerin, Colleen and Puntillo, Kathleen A and Ray, Daniel E and Bassett, Rick and Boss, Renee D and Lustbader, Dana R and Brasel, Karen J and Weiss, Stefanie P and Weissman, David E and Improving Palliative Care ICU Proj and Improving Palliative Care in the ICU Project Advisory Board
Critical Care Medicine, ISSN 0090-3493, 09/2015, Volume 43, Issue 9, pp. 1964 - 1977
OBJECTIVES:To describe unique features of neurocritical illness that are relevant to provision of high-quality palliative care; to discuss key prognostic aids... 
intensive care unit | neurointensive care unit | palliative care | end-of-life care | neurocritical care | OF-LIFE CARE | REFRACTORY STATUS EPILEPTICUS | MIDDLE-CEREBRAL-ARTERY | PROGNOSTIC VALUE | TRAUMATIC BRAIN-INJURY | DECISION-MAKING | ADMISSION BLOOD-PRESSURE | ORGAN DONOR DONATION | SUBARACHNOID HEMORRHAGE | PRIMARY INTRACEREBRAL HEMORRHAGE | CRITICAL CARE MEDICINE | Decision Making | Critical Care - organization & administration | Prognosis | Terminal Care - organization & administration | Health Status Indicators | Humans | Intensive Care Units - organization & administration | Withholding Treatment | Tissue and Organ Procurement - organization & administration | Palliative Care - organization & administration | Patient Care Planning | Time Factors | Brain Diseases - therapy | Communication
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11. Teamwork in palliative care
: fulfilling or frustrating?
by Speck, Peter W
2006, ISBN 9780198567745, xv, 223
Teamwork is a complex but essential component of palliative care. The needs of people diagnosed with life threatening disease will vary greatly over time, and... 
Patient Care Team | Palliative Care | Palliative treatment | methods | organization & administration | Hospice care | Nursing & Ancillary Services | palliative medicine | Palliative care | Holistic approach | Multi-disciplinary team | Legal implications | Teamwork | Ethical issues
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12. Improving care for the end of life
: a sourcebook for health care managers and clinicians
by Lynn, Joanne, 1951 and Palliative Care Policy Center and Institute for Healthcare Improvement
2007, 2nd ed., ISBN 9780195310429, 214
Terminal care | Death | Palliative Care | Palliative treatment | Patient-Centered Care | organization & administration
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13. Full Text Early integration of palliative care services with standard oncology care for patients with advanced cancer
by Greer, Joseph A and Jackson, Vicki A and Meier, Diane E and Temel, Jennifer S
CA: A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, ISSN 0007-9235, 09/2013, Volume 63, Issue 5, pp. 349 - 363
Answer questions and earn CME/CNE Scientific advances in novel cancer therapeutics have led to remarkable changes in oncology practice and longer lives for... 
end of life | metastatic cancer | quality of life | palliative care | TREATMENT PREFERENCES | END-OF-LIFE | RECEIVING CHEMOTHERAPY | NEAR-DEATH | DISCUSSING PROGNOSIS | PROSPECTIVE COHORT | CELL LUNG-CANCER | ONCOLOGY | HEALTH-CARE | REFERRAL PRACTICES | Neoplasms - therapy | Terminal Care - organization & administration | Time Factors | Humans | Quality of Life | Hospice Care - organization & administration | Medical Oncology - organization & administration | Palliative Care - organization & administration | Care and treatment | Usage | Palliative treatment | Cancer | Quality of life | Health care | Palliative care | Oncology | Disease management | Quality of care
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14. Full Text Advance Care Planning and the Quality of End‐of‐Life Care in Older Adults
by Bischoff, Kara E and Sudore, Rebecca and Miao, Yinghui and Boscardin, Walter John and Smith, Alexander K
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, ISSN 0002-8614, 02/2013, Volume 61, Issue 2, pp. 209 - 214
Objectives To determine whether advance care planning influences quality of end‐of‐life care. Design In this observational cohort study, Medicare data and... 
end‐of‐life | advance directives | advance care planning | quality | end-of-life | POPULATION | DECISION-MAKING | PREFERENCES | CANCER CARE | GERONTOLOGY | OUTCOMES | DIRECTIVES | GERIATRICS & GERONTOLOGY | Terminal Care - organization & administration | United States | Humans | Aged, 80 and over | Quality of Life | Female | Male | Advance Care Planning - organization & administration | Adaptation, Psychological | Palliative treatment | Aged | Medicare | Quality management | Advance directives | Palliative care | Older people | Quality of care
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15. Palliative nursing
: improving end-of-life care
by Kinghorn, Shaun and Gaines, Sandra
2007, 2nd ed., ISBN 9780702028168, xiii, 283
Nursing Care | Palliative Care | Empathy | Terminal Care | psychology | Nurse-Patient Relations
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16. Journal of pain and symptom management
University of Wisconsin--Madison. Dept. of Anesthesiology
Journal of pain and symptom management, ISSN 0885-3924, 1986
Palliative treatment | Pain
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17. Full Text Proactive palliative care in the medical intensive care unit: Effects on length of stay for selected high-risk patients
by Norton, Sally A and Hogan, Laura A and Holloway, Robert G and Temkin-Greener, Helena and Buckley, Marcia J and Quill, Timothy E
Critical Care Medicine, ISSN 0090-3493, 06/2007, Volume 35, Issue 6, pp. 1530 - 1535
OBJECTIVE:The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of proactive palliative care consultation on length of stay for high-risk patients in the medical... 
Critical care | Palliative care | Terminal care | Intensive care unit | Patient care | Length of stay |