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Hospice Care
- From the National Institutes of Health
- Overviews
- Related Issues
- Financial Issues
- Clinical Trials
- Research
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Directories
- Organizations
- Law and Policy
- Statistics
- Children
From the National Institutes of Health
- From the National Institutes of Health
- Hospice (National Cancer Institute)
Also available in: Spanish
Overviews
- Overviews
- Hospice Care: When Comfort, Not Cure, Is the Focus (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research)
- What Is Hospice Care? (American Cancer Society)
Related Issues
- Related Issues
- CarePlanner (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
- Communicating Your End-of-Life Wishes (National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization) - Links to PDF
- Helping You Choose Quality Home Care and Hospice Services (Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations)
- Hospice Care in the Nursing Home (American Academy of Family Physicians)
Also available in: Spanish - How to Select a Care Provider (National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization)
- JAMA Patient Page: Palliative Care (American Medical Association)
- What Questions Should I Ask about Hospice Care? (American Cancer Society)
Research
- Research
- Research Shows That Distinct Patterns of Functional Decline in the Last Year of Life Indicate the Need for Different Approaches to Palliative Care (National Institute of Nursing Research)
Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Dictionaries/Glossaries
- Glossary (Beth Israel Medical Center, Dept. of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care)
Directories
- Directories
- American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Physician Directory (American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine)
- Find a Hospice Program (National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization)
Organizations
- Organizations
- Children's Hospice International
- National Cancer Institute
- National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization
Law and Policy
- Law and Policy
- Ethics and Legal Issues in Palliative Care (Beth Israel Medical Center, Dept. of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care)
- Hospice (Medicare) (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
- Hospice Services (Medicaid) (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services)
Statistics
- Statistics
- FASTATS: Home Health Care (National Center for Health Statistics)
- New Report Profiles Hospice Care in the United States Shows Drop in Length of Care (National Center for Health Statistics)
Children
- Children
- About Children's Hospice, Palliative, and End-of-Life Care (Children's Hospice International)
- Differences between Hospice Care for Children and Adults (Children's Hospice International)