Meaning and Practice of Palliative Care for Hospitalized Older Adults with Life Limiting Illnesses

Objective. To illustrate distinctions and intersections of palliative care (PC) and end-of-life (EOL) services through examples from case-centered data of older adults cared for during a four-year ethnographic study of an acute care hospital palliative care consultation service. Methods. Qualitative...

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Main Authors: Powers, Bethel Ann, Norton, Sally A., Schmitt, Madeline H., Quill, Timothy E., Metzger, Maureen
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: SAGE-Hindawi Access to Research 2011
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3092544/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21584232
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.4061/2011/406164
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