RT Book, Section
A1 Teno, Joan M.
A1 Connor, Stephen R.
A2 McPhee, Stephen J.
A2 Winker, Margaret A.
A2 Rabow, Michael W.
A2 Pantilat, Steven Z.
A2 Markowitz, Amy J.
SR Print(0)
ID 6608533
T1 Referring a Patient and Family to High-Quality Palliative Care at the Close of Life: "We Met a New Personality…With This Level of Compassion and Empathy"
T2 Care at the Close of Life: Evidence and Experience
YR 2011
FD 2011
PB The McGraw-Hill Companies
PP New York, NY
SN 9780071637954
LK jamaevidence.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=6608533
RD 2024/04/16
AB Mr  K  is  a  49-year-old  man  with  metastatic  spindle  cell  cancer  who  was  admitted  directly  to  the  palliative  care  service  of  a  large  metropolitan  hospital  for  management  of  intractable  pain,  following  a  week  of  telephone  consultation  between  his  primary  care  physician  and  the  palliative  care  service.  The  palliative  care  service  provides  more  than  400  consultations  per  year  in  a  1900-bed  hospital  that  is  part  of  a  health  care  system  that  includes  both  home  care  and  hospice  programs.  The  palliative  care  service  team  consisted  of  3  physicians,  a  clinical  nurse  specialist,  a  social  worker,  and  a  chaplain.