title: Home palliative care: results in 1991 versus 1988.
abstract: Home care is greatly expanding because of the savings it offers by avoiding unnecessary hospitalization and also because patients benefit from being in their own home environments. Since 1988, Societa Assistenza Malato Oncologico Terminale (SAMOT) has organized a pain relief and home palliative care unit for terminal cancer patients. Objectives, difficulties, protocols, and achievements of 4 years of experience were examined, and the findings of the various years were compared. Our results suggest that considerable progress has been made in home palliative care. There are still social and cultural difficulties to overcome, however.
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Mercadante
authors: G
authors: G
authors: Genovese
authors: J A
authors: JA
authors: Kargar
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Maddaloni
authors: S
authors: S
authors: Roccella
authors: L
authors: L
authors: Salvaggio
authors: M T
authors: MT
authors: Simonetti
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006302:Health Services Research; D006699:Home Care Services / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D006738:Hospices / Q000706:statistics & numerical data* / Q000639:trends; D006801:Humans; D007558:Italy; D008297:Male