hospice care
collocation in Englishmeaningsofhospiceandcare
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hospice
noun[C]
uk/ˈhɒs.pɪs/us/ˈhɑː.spɪs/
a hospital for people who are dying, especially ...
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care
noun
uk/keər/us/ker/
the process of protecting someone or something and providing what that person or ...
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(Definition ofhospiceandcarefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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There were no significant differences in marital status or total time receivinghospicecare.
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These data provide insight into pain reported by persons who receivedhospicecare, and may be useful as process indicators of the quality of care.
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The intent of this study was to retrospectively evaluate the recognition of delirium in a large cohort of hospice patients by interdisciplinaryhospicecareteams.
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Determining why patients accesshospicecareso unevenly seems a worthier area of study than being concerned with forced choice by governmental agencies.
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Despite the significance of seasonal events inhospicecare, however, there are few studies that have evaluated how hospice patients appreciate these events.
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Staff members were also very aware that timing- when and how to talk abouthospicecarewith patients and families-needed to be assessed with care.
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To our knowledge, this is the first study that measures what is actually being done by front-linehospicecareclinicians with respect to delirium diagnosis.
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Needs of family caregivers of patients receiving homehospicecarefor cancer.
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That being the case,hospicecareis largely viewed as superfluous to their needs as they slip into an awareness and acceptance of mortality.
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Spiritual causes for terminal restlessness are possible to assess and address early inhospicecare.
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Pain in persons who receivehospicecareis not fully understood.
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Serious illness and the need forhospicecarewere first mentioned to patients and caregivers by physicians.
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These data suggest that the evaluation ofhospicecarefor older patients is generally high and does not vary with respect to terminal diagnoses.
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An analysis of variance was also performed looking for differences in length of inpatient stay or total time receivinghospicecare.
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Our results suggest that family members' perception of the timing of hospice referral-not the length of stay-is associated with the quality ofhospicecare.
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Almost 95% of physicians reported that they had referred at least one patient tohospicecareduring the course of their practice.
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