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Full-Text Articles in Palliative Care
Terminal Sedation As Palliative Care: Revalidating A Right To A Good Death, George P. Smith Ii
Terminal Sedation As Palliative Care: Revalidating A Right To A Good Death, George P. Smith Ii
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Not everyone finds a “salvific meaning” in suffering. Indeed, even those who do subscribe to this interpretation recognize the responsibility of each individual to show not only sensitivity and compassion but render assistance to those in distress. Pharmacologic hypnosis, morphine intoxication, and terminal sedation provide their own type of medical “salvation” to the terminally ill patient suffering unremitting pain. More and more states are enacting legislation that recognizes this need of the dying to receive relief through regulated administration of controlled substances. Wider legislative recognition of this need would go far toward allowing physicians, in the exercise of their reasonable …
Identification Of Factors That Influence Physician Generated Referrals To Hospice Programs, Cheryl A. Hoerner
Identification Of Factors That Influence Physician Generated Referrals To Hospice Programs, Cheryl A. Hoerner
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The hospice movement is just over 20 years old in this country. Hospice programs are dependent on physicians to educate and refer their terminal patients to hospice care. The purpose of this study was to identify factors which influence physicians in rural Iowa to refer terminal patients to selected hospice programs. The study involved Medicare-certified hospice programs and non-certified programs located in rural communities in Iowa. One hundred and fifty licensed physicians were randomly selected to complete a 14-item questionnaire. A total of 86 questionnaires were returned. The survey tool addressed demographic information, as well as identifying factors that influenced …