Patient-defined factors that are important at the end of life include being physically
independent for as long as possible, good symptom control, and spending quality time with …

Purpose Knowing how to improve the dying experience for patients with end-stage cancer is
essential for cancer professionals. However, there is little evidence on the relationship …

Purpose Hospice services are designed to meet the needs of patients near the end of life.
Although so-called open-access hospice programs and bridge programs are beginning to …

The suffering of terminally ill cancer patients underlines the need for good and well
organized palliative care. WHO defines the palliative care as the active total care of patients …

Purpose To determine whether hospice use by patients with cancer is associated with their
families' perceptions of patients' symptoms, goal attainment, and quality of end-of-life (EOL) …

Purpose To be eligible for the Medicare Hospice Benefit, cancer patients with a life
expectancy of 6 months or less must give up curative treatment. Our goal was to determine …

Background Palliative care has proven over time that it can help prolong life spans with the
use of hospices. The literature reports that most patients with cancer are diagnosed in the …

Hospice is a program of supportive services for terminally ill patients and their families,
provided either at home or in designated inpatient settings, which is purported to improve …

In the United States, hospice and palliative care are two distinct expressions of the hospice
interdisciplinary team approach to end-of-life care, which originated in Great Britain in the …

Hospice care is medical care provided to terminally ill patients with a life expectancy of 6
months or less. Hospice services include symptom control, pain management, palliative …