Improving palliative care for cancer : summary and recommendations / Kathleen M. Foley and Hellen Gelband, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Foley, Kathleen M., 1944-

Gelband, Hellen.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cancer--Palliative treatment.

Cancer.

Terminal care.

Palliative Care.

Terminal Care.

Quality Assurance, Health Care.

Neoplasms--therapy.

Medical Subjects:

Palliative Care.

Terminal Care.

Quality Assurance, Health Care.

Neoplasms--therapy.

Physical Description:

xiv, 64 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, [2001]

Contents:

What Is Palliative Care? 3

Barriers to Excellent Palliative and End-of-Life Care 5

End-of-Life and Palliative Care: Evolution of the Issue 25

The 1990s: Signal Efforts and Events Around Palliative and End-of-Life Care 29

Current NIH Involvement in Palliative and End-of-Life Care 37

Table A-1 NCI Funding for Palliative Care Research: Specific Projects, Fiscal Year 1999 52

Table A-2 NCI Funding for Palliative Care Research: Institutional Grants, Fiscal Year 1999 55

Appendix B Recommendations from Enhancing Data Systems to Improve the Quality of Cancer Care (IOM, 2000) 59

1 Clinical Practice Guidelines for End-of-Life Care: Status, Source, and Further Development Needed 14

2 Status of Quality Indicator Development for End-of-Life Care 17

3 Symptom Control Research Opportunities and Unmet Needs 26

Boxes

1 Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation 9

2 Support 30

3 Recommendations and Future Directions

From Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life (IOM, 1997) 33

4 The ASCO Survey 38.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 48-49).

ISBN:

0309075637

OCLC:

47721664