Palliative Care - A Patient-Centered Approach

Informationen zum Autor Geoff Mitchell Klappentext Gives guidance on how to approach patients with life limiting illness. This book offers a look at the management of patients. It suggests various ways to care for the dying. It is useful for healthcare professionals working in palliative care! general practitioners and medicine and healthcare students. Zusammenfassung Series Editors: Moira Stewart, Judith Belle Brown and Thomas R FreemanAs the population in western cultures ages, more people suffer chronic, ultimately life-limiting diseases and medical professionals need to be equipped to cope with the ever growing pressure of palliative care Inhaltsverzeichnis Palliative Care: The magnitude of the problem. Pathophysiology of life-limiting illnesses. Life limiting illness: the illness experience. Understanding the whole person: life-limiting illness across the life cycle. Symptom management in palliative care. Enhancing the patient-clinician relationship. Health promotion and palliative care.

Product details

• Authors: Geoff Mitchell, Geoffrey Mitchell
• Assisted by: Geoffrey Mitchell (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2000
• EAN: 9781857757392
• ISBN: 978-1-85775-739-2
• No. of pages: 144
• Series: Patient-Centered Care Series
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Clinical medicine; MEDICAL / Nursing / General, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / General, Palliative Medicine, Nursing and ancillary services, Nursing & ancillary services, MEDICAL / Pain Management