title: Hospice operations and perspectives: Part I.
abstract: The American hospice movement is one of the most rapidly expanding healthcare phenomena of the past two decades. Over 300,000 terminally ill patients were served by America's hospices in 1994. In the past year alone, so many new hospices have emerged that the exact number at present is unknown.
authors.affiliation: Hospice at the Texas Medical Center, Houston, TX, USA.
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Egede-Nissen
mesh_terms: D049670:History, 17th Century; D049672:History, 19th Century; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006738:Hospices / Q000191:economics / Q000266:history* / Q000458:organization & administration; D006801:Humans; D006278:Medicare; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000451:nursing*; D010166:Palliative Care; D010348:Patient Care Team; D011907:Rate Setting and Review; D006113:United Kingdom; D014481:United States