National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine, Health And Medicine Division, Board On Health Sciences Policy, Board On Health Care Services, Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness

Models and Strategies to Integrate Palliative Care Principles Into Care for People with Serious Illness

Proceedings of a Workshop
Mitwirkender: Alper, Joe; Graig, Laurene

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"Palliative care is the interdisciplinary specialty focused on improving quality of life for people with serious illness and their families. This interdisciplinary care is provided by doctors, nurses, social workers, chaplains and others who work together with the patient's other doctors to provide an extra layer of support. Such care is appropriate for people at any age and at any stage in a serious illness, and can be provided together with curative treatment to address clinical, emotional, psychosocial and spiritual concerns of the patient and their family. To better understand how the principles of palliative care can be integrated into the overall provision of care and services to those facing serious illness, the Roundtable on Quality Care for People with Serious Illness held a public workshop in April 2017. This publication summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: National Academies Press
• Seitenzahl: 102
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780309466110
• ISBN-10: 0309466113
• Artikelnr.: 49963752