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Palliative Care for Non-cancer Patients [Hardcover]

Julia M. Addington-Hall (Editor), Irene J. Higginson (Editor)

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ISBN-10: 0192629603 | ISBN-13: 978-0192629609 | Publication Date: July 15, 2001 | Edition: 1

The specialty of palliative care has traditionally grown out of oncology and there has been little research into the needs of patients dying from causes other than cancer. Few non-cancer patients receive hospice in-patient, home care or day care although a good proportion of hospices say that their services are available to non-cancer patients. As a result, the importance of palliative care for non-cancer patients is now being increasingly recognized internationally, and in the UK a committee reporting to the Department of Health recommended that palliative care should be accessible to all patients who need such care. Palliative Care of the Non-cancer Patient considers the needs and experiences of patients dying from, for instance, stroke, heart disease or dementia by drawing on a range of disciplines and specialties in medicine. The provision of palliative care for patients dying from causes other than cancer raises a number of important questions for policy makers and purchasers. This book summarises what is known about the needs of and appropriate service provision for people dying of causes other than cancer and begins to set a research agenda.

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A worthwhile addition to the library shelf of any hospice or palliative care service that manages any patients with nonmalignant disease. IAHPC Website

About the Author

Julia Addington-Hall is Senior Lecturer & Deputy Head in the Department of Palliative Care & Policy and Irene Higginson is Professor of Palliative Care & Policy both at King's College School of Medicine & Dentistry and St Christopher's Hospice, London.

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Hardcover: 292 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 1 edition (July 15, 2001)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0192629603
ISBN-13: 978-0192629609
Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 6.7 x 0.9 inches
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Despite high levels of mortality (Ebrahim 1990) and morbidity the palliative care needs of people following a stroke remain under-researched. Read the first page

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poor prognosis stroke, specialist palliative care services, sickle pain, hospital palliative care team, palliative care provision, district nurse care, ill hospitalised patients, hospice programmes, palliative care approach, requiring palliative care, palliative care programmes, palliative care professionals, palliative care specialists, link nurses, palliative medicine, providing palliative care, sickle crises, functional assessment staging, pain crises, good palliative care, acute hospital setting, informal carers, hospice admissions, chronic hepatic encephalopathy, sickle crisis

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New England Journal of Medicine, Oxford University Press, Department of Health, New York, London Lighthouse, Annals of Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Archives of Internal Medicine, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, The Lancet, World Health Organisation, Journal of Advanced Nursing, Edward Arnold, National Health Service, Royal College of Physicians, American Journal of Cardiology, Journal of Public Health Medicine, Radcliffe Medical Press, South Australia, Carers National Association, Occasional Paper, Quarterly Journal of Medicine, References Addington-Hall, American Journal of Kidney Diseases, Audit Commission

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The Management of Terminal Malignant Disease (Hodder Arnold Publication) by Cicely Saunders on 4 pages
The Year Before Death by Clive Seale on 4 pages

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