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Choices in Palliative Care

Issues in Health Care Delivery

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  • © 2007

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Editors:
  1. Arthur E. Blank

    1. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

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  2. Sean O'Mahony

    1. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

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  3. Amy Selwyn
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  • Will travel well with existing public health textbook titles, particularly those focusing on health services delivery

  • Fifty (50%) percent of all AIDS care in this country is done in palliative care settings. This book will travel well to all AIDS/HIV meetings Springer attends

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Palliative Care in Acute Care Hospitals

    • Randy Hebert, Nicole Fowler, Robert Arnold
    Pages 1-17

  3. Palliative Care in Nursing Facilities

    • Brenda Mamber
    Pages 18-30

  4. Patient-Centered Palliative Care in the Home

    • Marlene McHugh, Francine Rainone
    Pages 31-44

  5. Hospice Care

    • Carolyn Cassin
    Pages 45-61

  6. The Role of Cancer Rehabilitation in the Maintenance of Functional Integrity and Quality of Life

    • Andrea Cheville, Vivek Khemka, Sean O'Mahony
    Pages 62-83

  7. HIV/AIDS and Palliative Care: Models of Care and Policy Issues

    • Peter A. Selwyn, Linda Robinson, Martha G. Dale, Ruth McCorkle
    Pages 84-98

  8. Palliative Care and Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease

    • Manoj Karwa, Alpana Chandra, Adnan Mirza
    Pages 99-125

  9. Palliative Care and Chronic Heart Failure

    • Vikas Bhatara, Edmund H. Sonnenblick, Thierry H. Le Jemtel, Vladimir Kvetan
    Pages 126-143

  10. Palliative Care for Patients with Alzheimer's Dementia: Advance Care Planning Across Transition Points

    • Jennifer Rhodes-Kropf
    Pages 144-156

  11. Children and Issues Around Palliative Care

    • Tamara Vesel, Rita Fountain, Joanne Wolfe
    Pages 157-168

  12. Palliative Care and the Elderly: Complex Case Management

    • Sean O'Mahony, Franca Martino-Starvaggi
    Pages 169-183

  13. The Business of Palliative Medicine: Business Planning, Models of Care and Program Development

    • Ruth Lagman, Declan Walsh
    Pages 184-197

  14. Palliative Care and Quality Management: The Core Principles of Quality Improvement and their Utility in Designing Clinical Programs for End of Life Care and Complex Case Management Models

    • Sarah Myers, Arthur E. Blank
    Pages 198-210

  15. Ethics and the Delivery of Palliative Care

    • Linda Faber-Post
    Pages 211-224

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 225-233
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About this book

Choices in Palliative Care will address the need for more information on the management of palliative care programs. Part I addresses the various settings where palliative care occurs, Part II addresses the specific disease management approach and quality of life care including cancer, heart disease, dementia and AIDS/HIV. Part III addresses specific issues in palliative care by population including minorities, the elderly, and children. While Part IV will address broader professional issues including developing a business plan for a palliative care program; legal and ethical issues around end-of-life care; quality management; and policy issues.

Reviews

From the reviews:

"Those responsible for actually delivering treatment and care near the end of life, a group of health care practitioners that extends beyond the new specialty of palliative care, must participate in the evolving paradigm of palliative medicine. Whether one is just beginning the journey or well along the way, this book will make a good traveling companion." Robert L. Fine, Journal of the American Medical Association, Vol. 298 (14), 2007

"Somewhat alarming statistic sets the scene for a serious discussion about the delivery of palliative care in the future. … Most of the contributors to this book seem to be clinicians, which gives it a very practical, clinical slant. The book is both thorough and thought-provoking and should be required reading for anybody involved in planning the future development of palliative care." (International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care, Vol. 9 (4), 2008)

"A multiauthored survey of selected topics related to contemporary palliative care in the United States. ... Recommended Readership: Palliative care clinicians and program administrators." (John H. Davidson, Mayo Clinic Proceedings, Vol. 82 (9), September, 2007)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, USA

    Arthur E. Blank, Sean O'Mahony

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Choices in Palliative Care

  • Book Subtitle: Issues in Health Care Delivery

  • Editors: Arthur E. Blank, Sean O'Mahony, Amy Selwyn

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-70875-1

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag US 2007

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-70874-4Published: 09 May 2007

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-4363-7Published: 04 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-387-70875-1Published: 21 July 2007

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVIII, 234

  • Topics: Public Health, Health Administration, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention

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