Hospice Psychiatrists Conference

The Psychiatrists

Although written by a professor of politics, this book is about American psychiatrists and analysts. It describes two different 'tribes' of doctors: analysts, more highly selected, earning more money and seeing fewer patients, who are individually more important and more influential, and general practitioners, working in mental hospitals and centres and seemingly regarded as an inferior breed. ...

Hospice U.S.A

Unusual Microorganisms, edited by Edward J. Bottone, is a slender book, 126 pages, divided into six chapters, each of which treats a particular species of human pathogen. The book covers infections caused by six microbes: Eikenella corrodens, Capnocytophaga, Cardiobacterium hominis, Gardnerella vaginalis, Pasteurella multocida, and Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans. These microbes are infreq...

Selling hospice.

Americans are increasingly turning to hospice services to provide them with medical care, pain management, and emotional support at the end of life. The increase in the rates of hospice utilization is explained by a number of factors including a "hospice movement" dating to the 1970s which emphasized hospice as a tool to promote dignity for the terminally ill; coverage of hospice services by Me...

Hospice care.

Measuring hospice care: the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization National Hospice Data Set.

Hospice has seen rapid growth in recent years, but there is a lack of consistency among hospices when it comes to compliance with standards of care. Consequently, hospices vary in performance and in services they provide. With state hospice organizations, the NHPCO developed a National Data Set (NDS) intended to understand demographics, practices, and outcomes; illustrate industry effectiveness...