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Title:

The Hospice experiment / edited by Vincent Mor, David S. Greer & Robert Kastenbaum.

Publisher:

Johns Hopkins University Press,

Copyright Date:

c1988

Description:

xv, 269 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Hospices (Terminal care)--United States.
Hospices--Hospices
Soins en phase terminale--États-Unis.
Équipements de soins en phase terminale--États-Unis.
Verpleeghuizen.
Terminale patiënten.
Hospices--United States.
Terminal Care--United States.

Other Authors:

Mor, Vincent.
Greer, David S.
Kastenbaum, Robert.
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
John A. Hartford Foundation.

Notes:

"This work was supported in part by grants from DHHS/HCFA Grant no. 99-P-97793/1-0, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, and the John A. Hartford Foundation"--T.p. verso. Bibliography: p. 253-260. Includes index.

Contents:

Public policy and the hospice movement ; Concepts, questions, and research priorities / David S. Greer, Vincent Mor, and Robert Kastenbaum. Participating hospices and the patients they serve ; The research design of the national hospice study / Vincent Mor -- The impact of hospices on the health-care costs of terminal cancer patients ; Hospice services and cost savings in the last weeks of life / David Kidder -- The medical and social service interventions of hospice and nonhospice patients / Vincent Mor, David S. Greer, and Richard Golberg -- The last weeks of life : does hospice care make a difference? / John N. Morris ... [et al.] -- The effect of hospice care on where patients die / Vincent Mor ... [et al.] -- The first months of bereavement / Sylvia Sherwood ... [et al.] -- The hospice volunteer ; Organizational growth and change among hospices / Linda Laliberte and Vincent Mor -- Public policy and the hospice movement ; Concepts, questions, and research priorities / David S. Greer, Vincent Mor, and Robert Kastenbaum.

Series:

The Johns Hopkins series in contemporary medicine and public health

ISBN:

9780801835421 (alk. paper)
0801835429 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

87022580

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PNAX964 -- Northeast Iowa Community College Library - Calmar (Calmar)

6AAX145 -- Carroll Campus Library (Carroll)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

ULAX314 -- Loras College Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

OMAX631 -- Geisler Learning Resource Cntr (Pella)

OUAX845 -- Dordt University (Sioux Center)

UVAX975 -- Western Iowa Tech Library (Sioux City)

PQAX094 -- Wartburg College - Vogel Library (Waverly)