Improving Palliative Care We Can Take Better Care of People With Cancer (2003) / Chapter Skim
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Improving Palliative Care: We Can Take Better Care of People with Cancer
Improving Palliative Care: We Can Take Better Care of People with Cancer
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M Improving Palliative Care We can take better care of people with cancer.
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· Helping people get the emotional support they and their families need. End-of-Life Care: End-of-life care means meeting the needs of people as they near death.
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There care of other troubling symptoms. Now more and more people are aware that there are cancer care needs beyond was so much I needed just trying to cure it.
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We were to get through the difficult times they may face. able to help her do Treating symptoms and lessening the burdens on families allows patients to: what she needed to · Keep a sense of control.
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· Palliative or hospice care is often separated from hospital care. It may not be paid for in the same way as hospital care.
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Because cancer often strikes older people, Medicare usually pays for it. The Medicare hospice benefit covers pain medication and other medicines needed.
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For easily controlled by example, parents of children with cancer often have a hard low-dose IV time finding and paying for good hospice care. Many health insurance plans do not pay for some hospice services, like morphine.
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· Palliative care experts should guide decisions about what doctors need to learn in residency programs. · Questions about palliative care should be added to licensing and certifying exams.
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beginning to · They will be able to build trust and rapport with track what people their health care providers. · They will be satisfied with their care most of the time.
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African-Americans and other ethnic communities have a long history of unequal I couldnt' buy her treatment in our health care system. There may be no prescribed painkiller hospice care available in low-income, inner-city, or rural areas.
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There needs to be more information provided understand what about palliative and end-of-life care. Booklets and other written materials must describe palliative care and the last my options were.
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The cancer research community can lead the way. to make training in The medical community now has new ways to understand palliative care a the symptoms people experience.
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ways to help patients newly diagnosed with cancer, those It makes things dealing with treatment and recovery, as well as those coping with end-of-life issues. bearable." After studying the state of palliative care in the United States, the National Cancer Policy Board developed Fred, 72 recommendations to improve the system.
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Around our country, the National Cancer Institute (NCI) should name certain cancer centers as Centers of Excellence in palliative care.
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The government should fund projects to help develop new ways to pay for and give palliative care. Each symptom faced by cancer patients needs more research.
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The health care profession is responsible for creating standards of care that spell out what good palliative care means. Professional societies that represent doctors, nurses, and social workers in cancer care should work together to create, test, and use the best possible practices in the care they provide to people with cancer throughout their treatment and at the end of life.
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We shouldn't let this crisis. The another day pass in which cancer patients suffer needlessly.
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These experts wrote chapters on subjects ranging from the costs of palliative care, to the way doctors, nurses, and social workers learn about palliative care when they are in training. The chapters described the current state of the art in palliative care and identified opportunities for improvement.
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Pickett, Ph.D., Executive Vice President for California Family Health Council, Inc. Discovery Research, Schering-Plough Research Donna Bell Sanders, MPH, editor Institute, Kenilworth, NJ Sue Ellen Parkinson, design John Seffrin, Ph.D., Chief Executive Officer, Ildiko Tenyi, Spanish-language adaptation American Cancer Society, Atlanta Sandra Millon Underwood, R.N., Ph.D., ACS Funding Oncology Nursing Professor, University of Wisconsin School of Nursing, Milwaukee This edition was funded by the Frances Visco, President, National Breast Cancer Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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This is what palliative care is all about. We can improve palliative care for people with cancer.
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