"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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| 2003 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2004 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2005 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2006 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2012 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2017 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2021 | 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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Ramos-Fern?ndez MR, Ortiz-Ortiz KJ, Torres-Cintr?n CR, Tortolero-Luna G. Patterns of End-of-Life Care as Measured by Emergency Room Visits Among Cancer Patients in Puerto Rico. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2022 Jan; 39(1):72-78.
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Bazargan M, Cobb S, Assari S, Kibe LW. Awareness of Palliative Care, Hospice Care, and Advance Directives in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Sample of California Adults. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2021 Jun; 38(6):601-609.
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Bazargan M, Bazargan-Hejazi S. Disparities in Palliative and Hospice Care and Completion of Advance Care Planning and Directives Among Non-Hispanic Blacks: A Scoping Review of Recent Literature. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2021 Jun; 38(6):688-718.
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Snyder Sulmasy L, Mueller PS. Ethics and the Legalization of Physician-Assisted Suicide: An American College of Physicians Position Paper. Ann Intern Med. 2017 10 17; 167(8):576-578.
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Kataoka-Yahiro MR, McFarlane S, Koijane J, Li D. Culturally Competent Palliative and Hospice Care Training for Ethnically Diverse Staff in Long-Term Care Facilities. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2017 May; 34(4):335-346.
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MacKinnon CJ, Smith NG, Henry M, Milman E, Chochinov HM, K?rner A, Berish M, Farrace AJ, Liarikos N, Cohen SR. Reconstructing Meaning with Others in Loss: A Feasibility Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Bereavement Group. Death Stud. 2015; 39(7):411-21.
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Sammon JD, McKay RR, Kim SP, Sood A, Sukumar S, Hayn MH, Hu JC, Kibel AS, Nguyen PL, Peabody JO, Saad F, Sun M, Varda B, Menon M, Choueiri TK, Trinh QD. Burden of hospital admissions and utilization of hospice care in metastatic prostate cancer patients. Urology. 2015 Feb; 85(2):343-9.
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Cramer EM, Tenzek KE. The chaplain profession from the employer perspective: an analysis of hospice chaplain job advertisements. J Health Care Chaplain. 2012; 18(3-4):133-50.
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Lau DT, Berman R, Halpern L, Pickard AS, Schrauf R, Witt W. Exploring factors that influence informal caregiving in medication management for home hospice patients. J Palliat Med. 2010 Sep; 13(9):1085-90.
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Braun KL, Karel H, Zir A. Family response to end-of-life education: differences by ethnicity and stage of caregiving. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2006 Aug-Sep; 23(4):269-76.