Handbook of palliative care /
A Practical and Comprehensive Introduction to the Field of Palliative Medicine ""This is not so much a handbook of palliative care as the handbook of palliative care.""--Palliative Medicine The Third Edition of the BMA's 1999 Medical Book of the Year provides valuable insigh...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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New York :
Wiley-Blackwell,
2012.
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| Edition: | 3rd edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Handbook of Palliative Care; Contents; List of Contributors; Foreword; Preface to the Third Edition; Acknowledgements; List of Abbreviations; 1 The Context and Principles of Palliative Care; Introduction; What are hospice, palliative care, and end-of-life care?; End-of-life care; Specialist palliative care; Issues in palliative care worldwide; The challenges for palliative care in developing countries; Availability of opioids; International observatory on end-of-life care; Unmet need and continued suffering in the developed world; Enabling people to be at home.
- The principles of palliative careWhat do patients and their carers need?; Achieving good symptom management; Limits of symptom control; Attaining quality in palliative care; Quality assurance; Audit of quality; References; 2 Palliative Care in the Community; Introduction; Palliative care and the general practitioner; Training in palliative care for GPs; District nurses; Community matrons and case mangers; Specialist palliative care services in the community; Palliative care and the primary care team; Gold standards framework for palliative care; History of gold standards framework.
- Effectiveness of gold standards frameworkAfter death analysis tool; Gold standards framework and the multidisciplinary team; Palliative and end-of-life care in care homes or residential facilities; Out-of-hours palliative care in the community in the United Kingdom; The future: planning and commissioning future palliative care; Conclusion; References; 3 Public and Patient Involvement in Palliative Care; Introduction; Part 1: Examples from end-of-life care; Listening to the patient; Legislative initiatives to change end-of-life care; Part 2: Why public and patient involvement?
- Preconditions for public and patient involvementVoice and choice; Limitations in thinking of public and patient involvement as voice or choice; Discussion; Community development and cultural change; A changing palliative care; Conclusions; References; 4 Palliative Care: Choice, Equality, and Diversity; Introduction; The environment that breeds inequalities; The current context of care: the model in the United Kingdom; Understanding inequalities.
- Principle 1: The most equitable palliative care resonates with different communities' meta-narratives (the issues, preferences, choices, and experiences) of death and dyingPrinciple 2: The most equitable palliative care is responsive and adaptive to a person's beliefs, tradition, language, culture, and way of life; Principle 3: The most equitable palliative care is person rather than disease focused; Principle 4: The most equitable palliative care is initiated at the most appropriate time for the patient.