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Palliative care is an obligation owed every patient with critical disease, and not just those for whom curative options have been exhausted, according to a national medical society.
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According to a new analysis by the Center to Advance Palliative Care (CAPC), U.S. hospitals continue to implement palliative care programs at a rapid pace.
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One of the keys to a successful telehospice program is to make sure the equipment you select works in all types of situations.
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An overnight delivery of pain medication that took four days and a charge of $125 for eight pills from a hospital pharmacy are two of the reasons that the staff at Hospice of the Hills in Rapid City, SD, started looking for a new way to help patients with emergency needs.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) released proposed changes to the Medi-are hospice wage index for FY 2009.
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Wash hands, wear gloves, and clean equipment. All nurses know that these are the basic steps to take to protect patients from infection. What about the nurses' bag? How clean is it, and does it pose an infection threat?
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People in occupations involving high stress or high burnout rates, such as hospice care, are at risk for suicide, advises the American College of Emergency Physicians (ACEP). People having unrelenting long-term pain or a disabling or terminal illness also are at risk, ACEP says.
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Antibiotics are frequently prescribed to patients with advanced dementia in nursing homes, which poses two potential ethical dilemmas, both in the treatment burden placed on patients at the end of life and the spread of antimicrobial resistance in the nursing home community, a research group reports.
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Consumer direction of personal assistance services (CD-PAS) can offer Medicaid beneficiaries flexibility and independence to individualize their services.
