Articles Tagged With: hospice
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Some Hospice Medical Aid in Dying Policies Require Staff to Leave Room
Ethicists recommend hospices consider revising policies so nurses can support their patients clinically and emotionally at a critical moment.
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Physicians Can Suffer Moral Injury if Oath to Patients Is Broken
Long before the pandemic, physicians were suffering from “moral injury” — a violation of one’s values, ethical code, or sworn duty — because too often they had to choose between their patients and the profits and performance measures of corporate medicine, claims the author of a new book.
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Focusing on Home Health and Hospice Referral Practices
While healthcare is ever-changing, the practice of making referrals across the continuum of care evolves along with it. Over the last three years, as hospitals have been full and transitions of care have been made in haste, ensuring quality transitions to home health and hospice has become even more important. Thankfully, technology has helped ease the burden.
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Updated Recommendations on Pediatric End-of-Life Care
A report includes a review of essential elements of care for patients and families. The authors covered discussions on goals of care, how to establish end-of-life care goals, advance care planning, and palliative and hospice involvement.
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Waning Pandemic May Mean Less Interest in Advance Care Planning
National Healthcare Decisions Day is a time for Americans to document wishes for end-of-life care.
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Novel Program Decreases Transport to ED for Hospice Patients
Ventura County, CA, paramedics underwent 30 hours of training on crisis counseling, grief, and palliative care. When EMS responded to a 911 call and determined a patient was in hospice, they contacted trained staff. During a three-year study period, the percentage of hospice patients transported to the ED was 36% in the first year, 33% in the second year, and 24% in the third year. This was compared to 80% of hospice patients transported, on average, during the six months before project implementation.
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End-of-Life Experience Varies Depending on Geographical Region
Investigators were surprised by the striking degree to which the use of hospitalization and hospice varied across the United States, even among large metropolitan areas.
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Palliative care options increase as CMs look for end-of-life care
After more than two decades, the concept of palliative care is gaining traction among case managers and other healthcare providers. -
Tool may limit hospital admits from nursing homes
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Take proactive steps with a potential hospice case