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    Increased Access To Palliative Care and Hospice Services: Opportunities To Improve Value in Health Care

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    1) A small proportion of patients with serious illness or multiple chronic conditions account for the majority of health care spending in the US, despite receiving inadequate and fragmented care of poor quality. 2) Palliative care and hospice services improve patient outcomes like symptoms, satisfaction, and allowing patients to receive care in their preferred location. They can also prolong life compared to usual care. By reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and shifting care to the home, they lower health care costs. 3) Policies are needed to enhance the palliative care workforce, increase research, and expand availability of these services in hospitals and nursing homes to ensure all seriously ill patients have equitable access to high-quality end-of-life care.

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    1) A small proportion of patients with serious illness or multiple chronic conditions account for the majority of health care spending in the US, despite receiving inadequate and fragmented care of poor quality. 2) Palliative care and hospice services improve patient outcomes like symptoms, satisfaction, and allowing patients to receive care in their preferred location. They can also prolong life compared to usual care. By reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and shifting care to the home, they lower health care costs. 3) Policies are needed to enhance the palliative care workforce, increase research, and expand availability of these services in hospitals and nursing homes to ensure all seriously ill patients have equitable access to high-quality end-of-life care.

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    1) A small proportion of patients with serious illness or multiple chronic conditions account for the majority of health care spending in the US, despite receiving inadequate and fragmented care of poor quality. 2) Palliative care and hospice services improve patient outcomes like symptoms, satisfaction, and allowing patients to receive care in their preferred location. They can also prolong life compared to usual care. By reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and shifting care to the home, they lower health care costs. 3) Policies are needed to enhance the palliative care workforce, increase research, and expand availability of these services in hospitals and nursing homes to ensure all seriously ill patients have equitable access to high-quality end-of-life care.

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    1) A small proportion of patients with serious illness or multiple chronic conditions account for the majority of health care spending in the US, despite receiving inadequate and fragmented care of poor quality. 2) Palliative care and hospice services improve patient outcomes like symptoms, satisfaction, and allowing patients to receive care in their preferred location. They can also prolong life compared to usual care. By reducing unnecessary hospitalizations and shifting care to the home, they lower health care costs. 3) Policies are needed to enhance the palliative care workforce, increase research, and expand availability of these services in hospitals and nursing homes to ensure all seriously ill patients have equitable access to high-quality end-of-life care.

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    Keith Wesley C.

    Ybut BSN-III January 30, 2018


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    Increased Access to Palliative Care and Hospice Services:


    Opportunities to Improve Value in Health Care
    Diane E Meier

    Abstract
    Context: A small proportion of patients with serious illness or multiple chronic conditions
    account for the majority of health care spending. Despite the high cost, evidence demonstrates
    that these patients receive health care of inadequate quality, characterized by fragmentation,
    overuse, medical errors, and poor quality of life.
    Methods: This article examines data demonstrating the impact of the U.S. health care system on
    clinical care outcomes and costs for the sickest and most vulnerable patients. It also defines
    palliative care and hospice, synthesizes studies of the outcomes of palliative care and hospice
    services, reviews variables predicting access to palliative care and hospice services, and identifies
    those policy priorities necessary to strengthen access to high-quality palliative care.
    Findings: Palliative care and hospice services improve patient-centered outcomes such as pain,
    depression, and other symptoms; patient and family satisfaction; and the receipt of care in the
    place that the patient chooses. Some data suggest that, compared with the usual care, palliative
    care prolongs life. By helping patients get the care they need to avoid unnecessary emergency
    department and hospital stays and shifting the locus of care to the home or community, palliative
    care and hospice reduce health care spending for America's sickest and most costly patient
    populations.
    Conclusions: Policies focused on enhancing the palliative care workforce, investing in the field's
    science base, and increasing the availability of services in U.S. hospitals and nursing homes are
    needed to ensure equitable access to optimal care for seriously ill patients and those with
    multiple chronic conditions.

    Reference: Meier, D. (2011, September) Increased Access to Palliative Care and Hospice
    Services: Opportunities to Improve Value in Health Care.Retrieve from
    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3214714/
    Choosing a nursing career in either hospice or palliative care can be extremely difficult,
    but will provide an opportunity for great personal growth. The end-of-life nurse’s primary
    objective is to provide comfort and compassion to patients and their families during an extremely
    difficult time. They must satisfy all “physical, psychological, social, cultural and spiritual needs”
    of the patient and their family. The nurse involves their patient in care planning, as well as
    educating them about the options available. They must follow the wishes of the patient and their
    family, as provided in the patient’s advance directive if there is one available. This journal is true,
    we as nurses must increase access to palliative care and hospice services, we need to improve
    our skills and valued it. We also need on increasing the availability of services in hospitals and
    nursing homes are needed to ensure equitable access to optimal care for seriously ill patients.

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