Preventing crises in palliative care in the home. Role of family physicians and nurses.
With the current shift to community care, the need for palliative care in the home involving the family physician has increased. Potential causes of crises in the home care of the dying are identified. Strategies to prevent crises are suggested that rely on a team's providing comprehensive and anticipatory care.
Howarth
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Department of Family Medicine, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ont.
Willison
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D001293:Attitude to Death; D017028:Caregivers; D017051:Hospice Care; D006801:Humans; D009726:Nurses; D010166:Palliative Care; D010819:Physician's Role; D010821:Physicians, Family; D013727:Terminal Care