Providing a Palliative Care Service: Towards an Evidence BaseOxford University Press, 1999 - Počet stran: 276 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 andpatients 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 forpolicy decisions. |
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... Medicare patients but under restrictive conditions which led to slower than expected growth in numbers covered . Continuing funding problems led hospices to shift towards home - based care and to reduce the number of in - patient beds ...
... Medicare patients but under restrictive conditions which led to slower than expected growth in numbers covered . Continuing funding problems led hospices to shift towards home - based care and to reduce the number of in - patient beds ...
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... Medicare and shows how the hospice in south - eastern Michigan faced severe financial crisis and had to switch from in - patient to home care . Lukashok stresses how reimbursement through Medicare changes the identity and service ...
... Medicare and shows how the hospice in south - eastern Michigan faced severe financial crisis and had to switch from in - patient to home care . Lukashok stresses how reimbursement through Medicare changes the identity and service ...
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... ( Medicare Part A expenditures ) in the last month of life . Medicare patients receiving hospice had a savings of $ 6601 in nonhospice Part A and $ 950 in Part B Medicare payments over the last 12 months of their lives . This means that ...
... ( Medicare Part A expenditures ) in the last month of life . Medicare patients receiving hospice had a savings of $ 6601 in nonhospice Part A and $ 950 in Part B Medicare payments over the last 12 months of their lives . This means that ...
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