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Evaluating Palliative Care : Establishing the Evidence Base
ISBN: 9780192626219 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Evaluating Palliative Care: Establishing the Evidence Base provides an introduction to the theory and practice of the evaluation of palliati ve care services. It examines the methodological issues involved in th e evaluation of palliative care, and outlines a practical approach tha t is readily applicable to many other health care interventions. In pa rticular, research issues involving terminally ill patients and their carers are analysed and discussed, and approaches suggested for future work.
Evaluating Palliative Care: Establishing the Evidence Base provides an introduction to the theory and practice of the evaluation of palliati ve care s...
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645,12 zł |
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Providing a Palliative Care Service : Towards an Evidence Base
ISBN: 9780192629913 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book addresses key questions about the need for palliative care, the current provision of services and the evidence for the effectivene ss of a range of alternative models of organisation in pallitaive care . A broad approach is taken to include the needs of both cancer patien ts and patients with other terminal diseases and the relationship betw een palliative care and other aspects of health care services. The boo k is based on a comprehensive and detailed review of the international scientific literature on evaluation of palliative care, providing an essential evidence base for policy...
This book addresses key questions about the need for palliative care, the current provision of services and the evidence for the effectivene ss of a r...
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438,73 zł |
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Palliative Care Ethics : A Companion for All Specialties
ISBN: 9780192630681 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Palliative care is a rapidly growing area within health care and one i n which there are many ethical dilemmas. Chronically and terminally il l patients increasingly wish to take control of their own lives and de aths, resources are scarce and technology has created controversial li fe-prolonging treatment. This book has been written by a clinician and a teacher and writer of health care ethics to provide all those who c are for the terminally ill - doctors, nurses, social workers, physioth erapists, clergy and other carers - with the concepts and principles t o assist them in difficult...
Palliative care is a rapidly growing area within health care and one i n which there are many ethical dilemmas. Chronically and terminally il l patien...
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571,41 zł |
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Chronic and Terminal Illness : New perspectives on caring and carers
ISBN: 9780192631671 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most chronically and terminally ill patients are cared for in their own homes and represent a major yet free resource. These patients are not in hospitals or hospices and their day-to-day care is provided by family and friends at home. Carers are an invaluable resource and there is an increasing amount of research into their role and the experiences in caring for the terminally ill, patients with cancer and patients with other chronic diseases.
This book provides a critique of the theoretical concept of caring, carers and caregivers. Material is based on empirical evidence from recent... Most chronically and terminally ill patients are cared for in their own homes and represent a major yet free resource. These patients are not in hospi...
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340,45 zł |
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Palliative Day Care in Practice
ISBN: 9780192631831 / Angielski / Miękka / 168 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Day care centres are growing important in palliative care, providing a variety of services from out-patient clinics to art therapy classes. They are proving to be a cost-effective way of providing care, and of accustomising patients to the hospice environment before full time adm ittance. They can also improve quality of life by giving patients and carers time away from one another. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the current philosophy, patterns and policies of pallaiti ve day care. It places emphasis on the need to evaluate performance in palliative day care and describes in...
Day care centres are growing important in palliative care, providing a variety of services from out-patient clinics to art therapy classes. They are p...
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534,56 zł |
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Palliative Care in the Home
ISBN: 9780192632272 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Most people with far-advanced illness wish to be cared for at home for as long as possible. The challenge of providing good palliative care at home is therefore of major importance for family doctors, nurses and all those committed to maintaining the highest possible quality of life for the dying person. As modern specialist palliative care has raised both standards of care and also public expectations of family doctors and community nurses, this book helps to place specialist care in context. As palliative care is a major responsibility for teams providing palliative care at home, this book...
Most people with far-advanced illness wish to be cared for at home for as long as possible. The challenge of providing good palliative care at home is...
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595,98 zł |
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A House Called Helen : The Development of Hospice Care for Children
ISBN: 9780192632357 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Helen House - the first hospice for children in the UK - opened in Oxford in 1982 and has acted as a model for the establishment of respite and terminal hospice care for children ever since. This author of this book describes how the sudden illness of her daughter, Helen, was to lead to the idea of a small and homely hospice for children, providing respite and terminal care together with practical support for families. The text records the events surrounding the foundation of the hospice and sets out the philosophy behind the venture. It describes the operational framework and details the...
Helen House - the first hospice for children in the UK - opened in Oxford in 1982 and has acted as a model for the establishment of respite and termin...
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244,58 zł |
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Topics in Palliative Care: Volume 3
ISBN: 9780195102468 / Angielski / Twarda / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Palliative care is a rapidly evolving field focused on the management of problems that undermine the quality of life of patients with progressive incurable medical disorders. It is fundamentally concerned with all factors- physical, psychological, social, and spiritual- that contribute to suffering, and prevent a death with comfort and dignity. Palliative care is a fundamental aspect to good clinical practice, the "parallel universe" to therapies directed at cure or prolongation of life. All clinicians who treat patients with chronic life-threatening diseases are engaged in providing...
Palliative care is a rapidly evolving field focused on the management of problems that undermine the quality of life of patients with progressive incu...
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281,48 zł |
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Caring for Patients at the End of Life: Facing an Uncertain Future Together
ISBN: 9780195139402 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Caring for Patients at the End of Life: Facing an Uncertain Future Together, Dr. Quill uses his wide range of clinical experience caring for severely ill patients and their families to illustrate the challenges and potential of end-of-life care. Section one utilizes the near death experiences of two patients to explore values underlying medical humanism, and then presents the case of "Diane" to explore the fundamental clinical commitments of partnership and non-abandonment. Section two explores, illustrates, and provides practical guidance for clinicians, patients, and families...
In Caring for Patients at the End of Life: Facing an Uncertain Future Together, Dr. Quill uses his wide range of clinical experience caring f...
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188,07 zł |
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When Treatment Fails: How Medicine Cares for Dying Children
ISBN: 9780195156126 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Medical care of the terminally ill is one of the most emotionally fraught and controversial issues before the public today. As medicine advances and technologies develop, end-of-life care becomes more individualized and uncertain, guided less by science and more by values and beliefs. The crux of the controversy is when to withhold or withdraw curative treatments--when is enough, enough?
Political debates rage about when treatment is no longer effective; difficult cases are contested in courts; and the media devour the most sensational aspects of end-of-life care. In all this excitement... Medical care of the terminally ill is one of the most emotionally fraught and controversial issues before the public today. As medicine advances and t...
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256,91 zł |
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Palliative Care Perspectives
ISBN: 9780195165784 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing from his extensive clinical experience and many years of teaching, Dr. Hallenbeck has written a guide to palliative care for clinicians. Topics addressed range from an overview of death and dying to specific approaches to symptom management. As an introduction to both the art and science of palliative care, this book reflects the perspectives of one physician who has dedicated his career to this rapidly evolving field. the book links real stories of illness with practical advice, thereby delineating clinical practice in a way that reflects the daily concerns of clinicians.
Drawing from his extensive clinical experience and many years of teaching, Dr. Hallenbeck has written a guide to palliative care for clinicians. Topic...
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227,38 zł |
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Medicine and Care of the Dying: A Modern History
ISBN: 9780195175486 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. There is a growing conflict in medicine between the research imperative, with its implicit goal of overcoming death itself, and the re-emergent clinical imperative to treat death as a part of life, and to make the process of dying as tolerable as possible. Central to this conflict is the rise of scientific medicine and the decline of religious and associated moral discourses. Many of the Anglo Saxon countries are also marked by a moral and religious pluralism which breeds controversy over bioethical issues such as euthanasia. It seems that modern medicine has put the cure of bodies before...
There is a growing conflict in medicine between the research imperative, with its implicit goal of overcoming death itself, and the re-emergent clinic...
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247,03 zł |
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The Common Sense Guide to Improving Palliative Care
ISBN: 9780195310412 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Improving care for the patients who are in the last phase of their lives has been a field that most health care providers have struggled with during last few years. Having worked with hundreds of providers throughout the country, these experienced authors know what providers need when it comes to implementing a quality improvement project. This guide will provide user-friendly, step-by-step instructions on how to implement a quality improvement project in the full range of care settings. The instructions will be brought to life with specific examples from actual successful projects and key...
Improving care for the patients who are in the last phase of their lives has been a field that most health care providers have struggled with during l...
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202,81 zł |
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In Your Own Time : A guide for patients and their carers facing a last illness at home
ISBN: 9780198509752 / Angielski / Miękka / 268 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Anyone suffering from a terminal illness faces huge challenges, not only emotionally nad physically, but also in the range of practical decisions they need to make. 'In your own time' guides the patient through the choices that exist in the current system of medical care, helping them decide on the kind of care they want, and where they receive it- in the hospice or the home. It includes chpaters on coming to terms with their situation, the help available to them at home, how to choose between a hospice and home, and advice on coping witht the inevitable feelings and emotions of both patient...
Anyone suffering from a terminal illness faces huge challenges, not only emotionally nad physically, but also in the range of practical decisions they...
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156,12 zł |
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Surgical Palliative Care
ISBN: 9780198510000 / Angielski / Twarda / 280 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book describes the principles and practice of surgery in the context of palliative and supportive care. Surgery is often considered too invasive to be useful in palliation and clinicians instinctively turn to radiotherapy, chemotherapy, and other drugs. Surgery, with increasingly minimal access techniques, may be simpler and less invasive than other treatments and produces excellent palliation. Indeed, most types of surgery are not curative and the aim of this book is to alert all concerned with palliative care to the usefulness and appropriateness of a surgical option. The book is made...
This book describes the principles and practice of surgery in the context of palliative and supportive care. Surgery is often considered too invasive ...
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632,84 zł |
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Patient Participation in Palliative Care : A voice for the voiceless
ISBN: 9780198515814 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Developing a creative alliance with the 'person' beyond the 'patient' is a core tenet of effective palliative care. The need for a better understanding of how to develop active partnerships between service users and professionals has never been greater. This book examines progress thus far and attemts to delineate future challenges by bringing together a leading group of physicians, nurses, social workers, chaplains and psychologists who stress the importance of patient participation in palliative care. Recent developments are covered as well as bereavement issues and cultural differences....
Developing a creative alliance with the 'person' beyond the 'patient' is a core tenet of effective palliative care. The need for a better understandin...
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207,72 zł |
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Palliative Care Consultations in Gynaeoncology
ISBN: 9780198528067 / Angielski / Miękka / 188 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is designed to give the busy clinician immediate, easy-to-access and practical advice on clinical problems which may arise in the management of gynae-oncological patients. These problems may be rare on common but all are difficult to manage. This book provides current guidelines for management from an authoritative team of palliative care specialists, oncologists and gynaecologists.
This book is designed to give the busy clinician immediate, easy-to-access and practical advice on clinical problems which may arise in the management...
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129,10 zł |
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Palliative Care Consultations in Haemato-oncology
ISBN: 9780198528081 / Angielski / Miękka / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book is designed to give the busy clinician advice on clinical problems which may be relatively rarely encountered or very common but which are often very difficult to manage. The book includes a review of the current oncological and hemato-oncological management of advanced disease with symptom control advice.
This book is designed to give the busy clinician advice on clinical problems which may be relatively rarely encountered or very common but which are o...
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315,88 zł |
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Supportive Care for the Urology Patient
ISBN: 9780198529415 / Angielski / Twarda / 496 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book provides a practical, evidence-based overview of the supportive care of patients with urological failure, covering issues such as quality of life measurements, the role of the multidisciplinary team, and psychological and social support for patients, families and careers. The book focuses on chronic symptoms such as chronic prostatitis.
This book provides a practical, evidence-based overview of the supportive care of patients with urological failure, covering issues such as quality of...
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423,99 zł |
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Research methods in palliative care
ISBN: 9780198530251 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The research base for palliative care must improve as it continues to develop in increasingly evidence-based health care systems, and to provide the needs of patients and families. This is the first research methods textbook focusing on the unique needs of palliative care, aimed at improving current research and stimulating new research in the field.
The research base for palliative care must improve as it continues to develop in increasingly evidence-based health care systems, and to provide the n...
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345,37 zł |
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