 Hospice Care
"Hospice Care" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Specialized health care, supportive in nature, provided to a dying person. A holistic approach is often taken, providing patients and their families with legal, financial, emotional, or spiritual counseling in addition to meeting patients' immediate physical needs. Care may be provided in the home, in the hospital, in specialized facilities (HOSPICES), or in specially designated areas of long-term care facilities. The concept also includes bereavement care for the family. (From Dictionary of Health Services Management, 2d ed)
| Descriptor ID |
D017051
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| MeSH Number(s) |
E02.760.905.400 N02.421.585.905.400
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| Concept/Terms |
Hospice Programs- Hospice Programs
- Hospice Program
- Program, Hospice
- Programs, Hospice
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| 1997 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 1999 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2002 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2003 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2004 | 6 | 0 | 6 | | 2005 | 2 | 2 | 4 | | 2006 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2007 | 0 | 2 | 2 | | 2008 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2010 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2011 | 6 | 1 | 7 | | 2012 | 0 | 1 | 1 | | 2013 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2014 | 1 | 2 | 3 | | 2015 | 7 | 2 | 9 | | 2016 | 3 | 2 | 5 | | 2017 | 5 | 1 | 6 | | 2018 | 7 | 0 | 7 | | 2019 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Hospice Care" by people in Profiles.
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Masterson Creber R, Russell D, Dooley F, Jordan L, Baik D, Goyal P, Hummel S, Hummel EK, Bowles KH. Use of the Palliative Performance Scale to estimate survival among home hospice patients with heart failure. ESC Heart Fail. 2019 Apr; 6(2):371-378.
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Gore M, Lana SE, Bishop GA. Colorado State University, Pet Hospice Program. Vet Clin North Am Small Anim Pract. 2019 May; 49(3):339-349.
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Haverhals LM, Manheim CE, Mor V, Ersek M, Kinosian B, Lorenz KA, Faricy-Anderson KE, Gidwani-Marszowski RA, Levy C. The experience of providing hospice care concurrent with cancer treatment in the VA. Support Care Cancer. 2019 Apr; 27(4):1263-1270.
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Warraich HJ, Xu H, DeVore AD, Matsouaka R, Heidenreich PA, Bhatt DL, Hernandez AF, Yancy CW, Fonarow GC, Allen LA. Trends in Hospice Discharge and Relative Outcomes Among Medicare Patients in the Get With The Guidelines-Heart Failure Registry. JAMA Cardiol. 2018 10 01; 3(10):917-926.
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Candrian C, Tsantes A, Matlock DD, Tate C, Kutner JS. "I just need to know they are going to do what they say they're going to do with my mom." Understanding hospice expectations from the patient, caregiver and admission nurse perspective. Patient Educ Couns. 2018 11; 101(11):2025-2030.
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Baik D, Cho H, Masterson Creber RM. Examining Interventions Designed to Support Shared Decision Making and Subsequent Patient Outcomes in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review of the Literature. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2019 Jan; 36(1):76-88.
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Singh S, Rodriguez A, Lee D, Min SJ, Fischer S. Usefulness of the Surprise Question on an Inpatient Oncology Service. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2018 Nov; 35(11):1421-1425.
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Bekelman DB, Johnson-Koenke R, Bowles DW, Fischer SM. Improving Early Palliative Care with a Scalable, Stepped Peer Navigator and Social Work Intervention: A Single-Arm Clinical Trial. J Palliat Med. 2018 07; 21(7):1011-1016.
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Mrig EH, Spencer KL. Political economy of hope as a cultural facet of biomedicalization: A qualitative examination of constraints to hospice utilization among U.S. end-stage cancer patients. Soc Sci Med. 2018 03; 200:107-113.
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Taylor RA, Smith CB, Coats H, Gelfman LP, Dionne-Odom JN. Update in Hospice and Palliative Care. J Palliat Med. 2017 Nov; 20(11):1189-1194.
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