Hospital care for the terminally ill: a model program.
While community hospitals increasingly are becoming community health care centers, evidence suggests a great need for most of these institutions to improve their care of the terminally ill. Based on a study of existing care programs and of thanatology literature, the authors have developed a model hospital program for dying patients and their families that uses a team approach to integrate resources for their care.
D006764:Hospitals, Community / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011368:Professional-Family Relations; D013223:Statistics as Topic; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013795:Thanatology; D014481:United States