Navigating tensions: Integrating palliative care consultation services into an academic medical center setting

Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

Volumn 42, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 680-690

  Norton, Sally A ^a,b   Powers, Bethel Ann ^a   Schmitt, Madeline H ^a   Metzger, Maureen ^a   Fairbanks, Eileen ^a   Deluca, Jane ^a   Quill, Timothy E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND DENTISTRY   (United States)

Author keywords

consultation service; development; ethnography; growth; infrastructure; institutionalization; Palliative care

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONSULTATION; ETHNOGRAPHY; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HEALTH SERVICE; HOSPITAL ADMINISTRATOR; HOSPITAL PHYSICIAN; HOSPITAL POLICY; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONALIZATION; INTERVIEW; NURSING; PALLIATIVE CARE CONSULTATION SERVICE; PALLIATIVE THERAPY; PATIENT REFERRAL; SOCIAL WORK; UNITED STATES; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MEDICAL STAFF, HOSPITAL; NURSE PRACTITIONERS; PALLIATIVE CARE; PATIENT CARE TEAM; PHYSICIANS; REFERRAL AND CONSULTATION;

EID: 80255123418     PISSN: 08853924     EISSN: 18736513     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2011.02.010     Document Type: Article

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