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Ethics in hospice care
— challenges to hospice values in a changing health care environment | | Author(s) | Bruce Jennings |
| Journal title | The Hospice Journal, vol 12, no 2, 1997 |
| Pages | 91 pp |
| Source | Haworth Document Delivery Center, The Haworth Press, Inc., 10 Alice Street, Binghamton, NY 13904-1580, USA. |
| Keywords | Terminal care ; Social ethics ; Management [care] ; Policy ; United States of America. |
| Annotation | The papers presented were originally commissioned for the Hastings Center project on Ethical and Policy Issues in Hospice Care. Their aim is to address the economic, social and cultural challenges facing US hospice care, and to contribute to the continuing discussion of ethical issues and values with regard to terminal care. One paper considers whether the movement towards assisted suicide will become an alternative to hospice care; while another points to the role of the hospice in developing palliative care. Other papers consider the role of nurses and ethical dilemmas of patients dying at home; the legal requirements for confidentiality in hospice care; the roles of doctors and ethics committees in hospices; the role of hospices in health care improvement; and hospices and `managed care'. Concerns are expressed about changes being imposed on the hospice movement in the US by market-based reforms in the wider health care industry. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-971209218 B |
| Classmark | LV: TQ: QA: QAD: 7T |
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