TY  - BOOK
AU  - Field,Marilyn J.
AU  - Cassel,Christine K.
ED  - Institute of Medicine (U.S.).
TI  - Approaching death: improving care at the end of life 
SN  - 0585024278
AV  - R726.8 .A68 1997eb
U1  - 362.1/75/0973 21
PY  - 1997///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - National Academy Press
KW  - Terminal care
KW  - United States
KW  - Terminal Care
KW  - Soins en phase terminale
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - MEDICAL
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; The Need for Consensus and Action --; Initiatives to Improve Care at the End of Life --; Overview of Report --; Guiding Principles --; A Profile of Death and Dying in America --; When People Die: The Aging of America --; Why People Die: Causes of Death --; Where People Die: Death in Institutions and Residences --; How People Die: Symptoms of Impending Death --; Attitudes Toward Dying and Death --; Caring at the End of Life --; Differences in Dying Pathways: Illustrative Cases --; Determining and Communicating Diagnosis and Prognosis --; Establishing Goals and Plans --; Fitting Care to Goals and Circumstances --; The Health Care System and the Dying Patient --; Characterizing Care Systems --; Illustrative Case Histories --; Settings for End-of-Life Care --; Coordinating Care Within and Across Settings --; Revisiting the Care System at the Community and National Levels --; Accountability and Quality in End-of-Life Care --; Concepts of Accountability and Quality --; Evidence of Quality Problems in End-of-Life Care --; Dimensions of Quality in Care at the End of Life --; Measurement Instruments and Issues --; Guidelines for Clinical Practice --; Financial and Economic Issues in End-of-Life Care --; Who Pays for Care at the End of Life? --; What Is Spent for Care at the End of Life? --; Do Financing Mechanisms Impede Good End-of-Life Care? --; What About Proposals to Reduce the Cost of End-of-Life Care? --; Legal Issues --; Prescription Laws and Barriers to Pain Relief --; Informed Consent and Advance Care Planning --; Physician-Assisted Suicide; Electronic reproduction; [Place of publication not identified]; HathiTrust Digital Library; 2010
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