The Hospice experiment / edited by Vincent Mor, David S. Greer & Robert Kastenbaum.
Material type: TextSeries: 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)
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- R726.8 .H665 1988
- WX 28.6 AA1 H77
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"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.