Biomaterial Database

Issues & trends affecting the nation's hospices. 1997

D H Jones

Hospice Association of America, Washington, DC, USA.

As the hospice industry has grown and moved from isolation into the health care system, it necessarily faces new issues. Some are definite, such as budget considerations; others are more theoretical--for instance, physician-assisted suicide--and thus may remain up for debate as hospice matures into an as-yet-unseen status.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D012051	Reimbursement Mechanisms	Processes or methods of reimbursement for services rendered or equipment.	Mechanism, Reimbursement,Mechanisms, Reimbursement,Reimbursement Mechanism
D002017	Budgets	Detailed financial plans for carrying out specific activities for a certain period of time. They include proposed income and expenditures.	Budgetary Control,Budget,Budgetary Controls,Control, Budgetary,Controls, Budgetary
D005607	Fraud	Exploitation through misrepresentation of the facts or concealment of the purposes of the exploiter.	Fraud, Health Care,Health Care Fraud,Kickbacks,Drug Counterfeiting,Healthcare Fraud,Counterfeiting, Drug,Fraud, Healthcare,Health Care Frauds,Kickback
D006738	Hospices	Facilities or services which are especially devoted to providing palliative and supportive care to the patient with a terminal illness and to the patient's family.	Hospice
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D013727	Terminal Care	Medical and nursing care of patients in the terminal stage of an illness.	End-Of-Life Care,End of Life Care,Care, End-Of-Life,Care, Terminal,End-Of-Life Cares
D014481	United States	A country in NORTH AMERICA between CANADA and MEXICO.
D017146	Models, Organizational	Theoretical representations and constructs that describe or explain the structure and hierarchy of relationships and interactions within or between formal organizational entities or informal social groups.	Organizational Models,Model, Organizational,Organizational Model
D017236	Suicide, Assisted	Provision (by a physician or other health professional, or by a family member or friend) of support and/or means that gives a patient the power to terminate his or her own life. (from APA, Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms, 8th ed).	Assisted Suicide,Death, Assisted,Medically Assisted Suicide,Physician-Assisted Suicide,Medically Assisted Suicides,Suicide, Medically Assisted,Suicides, Medically Assisted,Assisted Death,Assisted Deaths,Assisted Suicides,Deaths, Assisted,Physician Assisted Suicide,Physician-Assisted Suicides,Suicide, Physician-Assisted,Suicides, Assisted,Suicides, Physician-Assisted
D019983	Guideline Adherence	Conformity in fulfilling or following official, recognized, or institutional requirements, guidelines, recommendations, protocols, pathways, or other standards.	Institutional Adherence,Policy Compliance,Protocol Compliance,Adherence, Guideline,Adherence, Institutional,Compliance, Policy,Compliance, Protocol