Eksempler på hospice

• Individual hospices were represented at rates ranging f rom 25% to 100%.

• Whereas oncologists and primary care physicians overwhelmingly reported having working relationships with hospice, only 57% of cardiologists reported having those contacts.

• There were no significant differences in marital status or total time receiving hospice care.

• Eight of the subjects had reported experiencing the death of a first-degree relative, and in two of these cases the member reportedly received hospice services.

• Official statistics do not distinguish deaths in hospices, which are included in 'communal establishments for the care of the sick'.

• Families reported physicians as an important barrier to earlier hospice referral in nearly one-half of cases.

• All patient characteristics were defined by abstraction of electronic medical records at the time of hospice discharge.

• This word "hospice" went in our ears and promptly exited.

• The real question is, do these other services apply the lessons learned at hospices?

• The authors concluded that confusion among hospice patients was common, f requently severe, and usually problematic.

• Not all hospice workers responded to this survey, and not all who responded completed every question.

• Several hospice prog rams have been developed nationwide since then.

• This pattern was modified if patients were being seen simultaneously by another service, for example, hospice day center.

• The care of the dying is shared between the primary health care team, the general hospital and the hospice/special care unit.

• This has been significant in the creation of hospices for dying people where they are enabled, rather than disabled, on the journey into the unknown.