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Palliative care and ethics /
Hospice is the premiere end of life program in the United States, but its requirement that patients forgo disease-directed therapies and that they have a prognosis of 6 months or less means that it serves less than half of dying patients and often for very short periods of time. Palliative care offe...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Hospice / Charles F. von Gunten
- Palliative care / Susan D. Block
- Emerging complexities in pediatric palliative care / Renee D. Boss and Nancy Hutton
- Patient-centered ethos in an era of cost control : palliative care and healthcare reform / Emily G. Warner and Diane E. Meier
- Palliative care, ethics, and interprofessional teams / Sally A. Norton, Deborah Waldrop, and Robert Gramling
- Pain relief and palliative care / Nathan Cherny
- Management of dyspnea / Thomas W. LeBlanc, David C. Currow, Jane L. Phillips, and Amy P. Abernethy
- Diagnosis and treatment of delirium / Maxine De la Cruz and Eduardo Bruera
- Psychosocial and psychiatric suffering / Yesne Alici, Kanan Modhwadia, and William S. Breitbart
- Capacity and shared decision making in serious illness / Ronald M. Epstein and Vikki A. Entwistle
- Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatments / Robert D. Truog
- Medical futility : content in the context of care / Peggy L. Determeyer and Howard Brody
- Palliative sedation / J. Andrew Billings
- Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking / Emily B. Rubin and James L. Bernat
- Physician-assisted death / Timothy E. Quill and Franklin G. Miller
- Lessons from legalized physician-assisted death in Oregon and Washington / Linda Ganzini
- Physician-assisted death in Western Europe : the legal and empirical situation / Heleen Weyers.