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Hospice Care - References

Citations

  1. Kinzbrunner BM (2002). How to help patients access end-of-life care. In BM Kinzbrunner et al., eds., 20 Common Problems in End-of-Life Care, pp. 29–45. New York: McGraw-Hill.

  2. Steinhauser KE, et al. (2000). In search of a good death: Observations of patients, families, and providers. Annals of Internal Medicine, 132(10): 825–831.

Other Works Consulted

  • Byock I (1997). Dying Well. New York: Riverhead Books.

  • Cordts GA, et al. (2007). Care at the end of life. In LR Barker et al., eds., Principles of Ambulatory Medicine, 7th ed., pp. 192–207. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

  • McCarthy EP, et al. (2003). Hospice use among Medicare managed care and fee-for-service patients dying with cancer. JAMA, 289(17): 2238–2245.

  • Rakel RE, Storey P (2002). Care of the dying patient. In RE Rakel, ed., Textbook of Family Practice, 6th ed., pp. 131–147. Philadelphia: W.B. Saunders.

  • Sadock BJ, et al. ( 2007). Death, dying, and bereavement. In Kaplan and Sadock's Synopsis of Psychiatry, Behavioral Sciences/Clinical Psychiatry, 10th ed., pp. 61–69. Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams and Wilkins.

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Last Updated: December 27, 2007
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