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The Hospice experiment / edited by Vincent Mor, David S. Greer & Robert Kastenbaum.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Johns Hopkins series in contemporary medicine and public healthPublication details: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1988.Description: xv, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0801835429 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.1/75 19
LOC classification:
  • R726.8 .H665 1988
NLM classification:
  • WX 28.6 AA1 H77
Contents:
The hospice experiment : an alternative in terminal care / Vincent Mor, David S. Greer, and Robert Kastenbaum -- Participating hospices and the patients they serve ; The research design of the national hospice study / Vincent Mor -- The impact of hospices on the health-care costs of terminal cancer patients ; Hospice services and cost savings in the last weeks of life / David Kidder -- The medical and social service interventions of hospice and nonhospice patients / Vincent Mor, David S. Greer, and Richard Goldberg -- The last weeks of life : does hospice care make a difference? / John N. Morris [and others] -- The effect of hospice care on where patients die / Vincent Mor [and others] -- The first months of bereavement / Sylvia Sherwood [and others] -- The hospice volunteer ; Organizational growth and change among hospices / Linda Laliberte and Vincent Mor -- Public policy and the hospice movement ; Concepts, questions, and research priorities / David S. Greer, Vincent Mor, and Robert Kastenbaum.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Books (30-Day Checkout) Books (30-Day Checkout) Nash Library General Stacks R726.8.H665 1988 1 Available 33710000053343

"This work was supported in part by grants from DHHS/HCFA Grant no. 99-P-97793/1-0, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the John A. Hartford Foundation"--T.p. verso.

Includes index.

Bibliography: p. 253-260.

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The hospice experiment : an alternative in terminal care / Vincent Mor, David S. Greer, and Robert Kastenbaum -- Participating hospices and the patients they serve ; The research design of the national hospice study / Vincent Mor -- The impact of hospices on the health-care costs of terminal cancer patients ; Hospice services and cost savings in the last weeks of life / David Kidder -- The medical and social service interventions of hospice and nonhospice patients / Vincent Mor, David S. Greer, and Richard Goldberg -- The last weeks of life : does hospice care make a difference? / John N. Morris [and others] -- The effect of hospice care on where patients die / Vincent Mor [and others] -- The first months of bereavement / Sylvia Sherwood [and others] -- The hospice volunteer ; Organizational growth and change among hospices / Linda Laliberte and Vincent Mor -- Public policy and the hospice movement ; Concepts, questions, and research priorities / David S. Greer, Vincent Mor, and Robert Kastenbaum.