Guidelines and Suggestions for those Starting a Hospice/Palliative Care Service
3rd Edition
Derek Doyle, OBE, MD
IAHPC Press
Houston, 2021
ISBN - 978-0-9989787-5-8
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations/Acronyms
- Introduction
- What is Palliative Care?
- Principles of Palliative Care
- How do you 'get started'?
- Management of the New Service
- Hospital Palliative Care Unit
- Hospital Palliative Care Team
- Free-standing Inpatient Unit/Hospice
- Home Care/Community Palliative Care Services
- Hospice/Palliative Day Care Unit
- Human Resources
- Hospice/Palliative Care Volunteers
- Orientation, Training and Education
- Communication
- Documentation
- Resources
- References