Providing A Palliative Care Service: Towards An Evidence Base (Oxford Medical Publications) - Softcover

Bosanquet, Nick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0192629913 ISBN 13: 9780192629913

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

Synopsis

This book addresses key questions about the need for palliative care, the current provision of services and the evidence for the effectiveness of a range of alternative models of organisation in pallitaive care. A broad approach is taken to include the needs of both cancer patients and patients with other terminal diseases and the relationship between palliative care and other aspects of health care services. The book is based on a comprehensive and detailed review of the international scientific literature on evaluation of palliative care, providing an essential evidence base for policy decisions.

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Review

'...a valuable resource for all professionals working in specialist palliative care: those responsible for developing current service provision, commissioners of healthcare, providers applying the palliative care approach to all areas of healthcare, anyone undertaking further study in palliative care and researchers looking for new areas of palliative care to study. This is a comprehensive book that looks at the key questions facing everyone involved in palliative (Health Service Journal.)

About the Author

Nick Bosanquet is at Imperial College School of Medicine, London. Chris Salisbury is at University of Bristol.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0192629913
• ISBN 13: 9780192629913
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288