Providing a Palliative Care Service
Towards an Evidence Base
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 18 March 1999
- ISBN 9780192629913
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages288 pages
- Size 234x156x17 mm
- Weight 414 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book addresses key questions about the need for palliative care, the current provision of services and the evidence for the effectiveness of a range of alternative models of organisation in pallitaive care. A broad approach is taken to include the needs of both cancer patients and patients with other terminal diseases and the relationship between palliative care and other aspects of health care services. The book is based on a comprehensive and detailed review of the international scientific literature on evaluation of palliative care, providing an essential evidence base for policy decisions.
MoreLong description:
This book addresses key questions about the need for palliative care, the current provision of services and the evidence for the effectiveness of a range of alternative models of organisation in pallitaive care. A broad approach is taken to include the needs of both cancer patients and patients with other terminal diseases and the relationship between palliative care and other aspects of health care services. The book is based on a comprehensive and detailed review of the international scientific literature on evaluation of palliative care, providing an essential evidence base for policy decisions.
'...a valuable resource for all professionals working in specialist palliative care: those responsible for developing current service provision, commissioners of healthcare, providers applying the palliative care approach to all areas of healthcare, anyone undertaking further study in palliative care and researchers looking for new areas of palliative care to study. This is a comprehensive book that looks at the key questions facing everyone involved in palliative
Table of Contents:
Aims and objectives
Conduct of the review
The problems of conducting research in palliative care
Patterns of use for services
The need for palliative care
Models of palliative care
Costs and benefits
Contemporary models for palliative care nursing
Patient and carer satisfaction
The impact on quality of life
The wider implications
Palliative Care in Hospital
Care for patients with cancer or other conditions
Implications of the fi ndings for health services
Bibliography
