To be financially viable, hospice programs, which receive per diem reimbursements, must be able to balance out the high initial costs of services to new patients with the lower costs of maintaining stabilized patients." (Open Society Institute - Project on Death in America, 2007) Finally, it is related that "high quality end-of-life care depends upon an integrated network of in-hospital, out-patient, home and nursing home services." (Open Society Institute - Project on Death in America, 2007) Issues requiring research which present barriers to the provision of comprehensive quality palliative care include the issues as follows: (1) How does the six-month eligibility requirement affect patient access to end-of-life care?; (2) What is the impact of delayed referrals on hospice services?; (3) Are there cost incentives within HMOs to rush patients receiving expensive curative treatments into less expensive hospice programs?; (4) How does "dehospitalization" impact the ability of medical centers to provide cost-effective palliative care services?; (5) Will capitated managed care, under which physician groups are paid a lump sum to care for each enrollee, undermine the viability of hospital and home palliative care services?; (6) Will capitation shift more patient care to family members? And (7) Where are the resources likely to come from to provide widespread, humane end-of-life care? (Open Society Institute - Project on Death in America, 2007
Barriers identified to quality palliative care include "a lack of communication between decision makers including medical staff, care staff, the resident and their family...the failure to recognize that no curative or restorative treatment is longer possible, so that terminal care can then be provided...a lack of agreement on plan of care...a failure to implement the plan in a timely fashion." (SCIE Research Briefing 10: Terminal Care in Care Homes, 2004) Identified as "one of the potentially most important means of improving the quality of terminal care for the dying... is education and training of palliative care staff. (Froggatt and Hoult, 2002; Sidell, 2003; as cited in SCIE Research Briefing 10: Terminal Care in Care Homes, 2004)
SUMMARY and CONCLUSION
It has been related in the foregoing literature review that there are four basic components to the provision of quality palliative care by the nurse for patients who are terminally ill with those four components being identified as: (1) emotional; (2) social; (3) physical; and (4) informational. The role of the nurse in providing the...
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