Add to ORKGFor the past 20 years, there has been a growing awareness and acceptance of the palliative care concepts of Hospice. Hospice and the concept of palliative care represent a dramatic shift from the traditional medical model of physician-directed, institutional-centered health care; What are the guiding principles of palliative care and what are their ethical underpinnings? The ethical principles of autonomy, justice and care will be explored, as well as the possibility for the abuse of palliative care under the current climate of healthcare reform; Recommendations will be made pertaining to reform of the healthcare system, the education of healthcare professionals and safeguards against using palliative care for the sole purpose of cost-savin...
An accepted assumption that permeates much of contemporary Western culture and especially research c...
Purpose/Objectives: The end-of-life needs and desires of patients, whether it is related to a termin...
People, with life threatening illnesses who enter palliative care early on in an illness-stage repor...
Background: Recognising and knowing how to manage ethical issues and moral dilemmas can be considere...
In palliative care, death, which is a part of human nature, is considered as a normal process. This ...
Educational Objectives: 1. Discuss the origins of hospice and palliative care. 2. Compare and contra...
Since the beginning of the hospice movement in 1967, total pain management has been the declared g...
End-of-life decision making by health care providers must respect individual patient values. Indeed,...
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Hospice founder Cicely Saunders wrote that “the dignity and worth of each individual patient [are] c...
In providing hospice care, clinicians are confronted with ethical challenges on a daily basis involv...
Palliative care is unusual as a specialty within health care in that it has its own philosophy, whic...
Dying, Economized is a sociological account of the intersection between morality and economics in U....
Our medicalised modern cultures render reason and mystery mutually exclusive, define death by diseas...
This inquiry, which employed a narrative research approach, critically explored the ethical dimensio...
An accepted assumption that permeates much of contemporary Western culture and especially research c...
Purpose/Objectives: The end-of-life needs and desires of patients, whether it is related to a termin...
People, with life threatening illnesses who enter palliative care early on in an illness-stage repor...
Background: Recognising and knowing how to manage ethical issues and moral dilemmas can be considere...
In palliative care, death, which is a part of human nature, is considered as a normal process. This ...
Educational Objectives: 1. Discuss the origins of hospice and palliative care. 2. Compare and contra...
Since the beginning of the hospice movement in 1967, total pain management has been the declared g...
End-of-life decision making by health care providers must respect individual patient values. Indeed,...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
Hospice founder Cicely Saunders wrote that “the dignity and worth of each individual patient [are] c...
In providing hospice care, clinicians are confronted with ethical challenges on a daily basis involv...
Palliative care is unusual as a specialty within health care in that it has its own philosophy, whic...
Dying, Economized is a sociological account of the intersection between morality and economics in U....
Our medicalised modern cultures render reason and mystery mutually exclusive, define death by diseas...
This inquiry, which employed a narrative research approach, critically explored the ethical dimensio...
An accepted assumption that permeates much of contemporary Western culture and especially research c...
Purpose/Objectives: The end-of-life needs and desires of patients, whether it is related to a termin...
People, with life threatening illnesses who enter palliative care early on in an illness-stage repor...