Public Policy and End-of-life Care

End-of-life public policy has the potential to affect everyone. The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of recent significant policy activity. The authors begin by reviewing the Medicare and Medicaid hospice benefit and the Patient Self-Determination Act, highlighting state-level devel...

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Veröffentlicht in:	The American behavioral scientist (Beverly Hills) 2002-11, Vol.46 (3), p.401-417
Hauptverfasser:	WERTH, JAMES L., BLEVINS, DEAN
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Advance directives Advocacy Assisted suicide Baby boomers Beneficiaries Cancer therapies Caregivers Caring Costs Death Directives Dying Enrollments Funding Health Care Services Policy Hospice care Human behaviour Judicial Decisions Legislation Length of stay Long term health care Medicaid Medical decision making Medicare Pain management Palliative Care Patients Patients Rights Public policy Right to Die Self determination Social factors Social sciences Trends
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