… patients that need and deserve palliative care and hospice … applicable to all palliative care
and hospice patients, whether … are typically restricted to patients with certain types of cancer. …

… Palliative care aims to address the physical, psychological, and spiritual needs of patients …
Hospice care is a type of palliative care for patients in the last 6 months of life, and it cannot be …

… and improvement in settings caring for hospice and palliative care patients. These indicators
… Palliative Care Guidelines and most are applicable to broad hospice and palliative care …

… from the patients/families they are “privileged” to be with. The purpose of this article is to
demonstrate how hospice palliative care volunteerism benefits both the patients and families …

… care, with music therapists gaining employment opportunities in hospices and as members of
palliative care … implemented in hospice and palliative care, more patients and families have …

… physicians and administrators of hospices and hospitals to construct a regulatory reform …
patients in need of hospice and palliative care. Ongoing studies of maturing hospital/hospice …

… Hospice is appropriate when curative treatments are no … when patients enter the last weeks
to months of life." Interdisciplinary teams that provide hospice and nonhospice palliative care …

… differences between these two options, clarify when referral is appropriate for hospice or
palliative care services, and discuss the nurse's role in caring for patients with chronic disease. …

… Studies examining reasons for hospitalizations among hospice or palliative care patients …
home hospice patients to an inpatient facility, defined as an inpatient hospice unit, acute care …

… palliative care to terminally ill patients in the United States. Unlike palliative care programs
outside the United States, patients … receive hospice care under the Medicare Hospice Benefit. …