Guidelines and Suggestions for Those Starting a Hospice/Palliative Care Service

3^rd Edition

By Derek Doyle, OBE, MD

IAHPC Press
Houston, 2021
ISBN - 978-0-9989787-5-8

Table of contents

• Preface
• Abbreviations/Acronyms
• Introduction
• What is Palliative Care?
• Principles of Palliative Care
• How do you 'get started'?
• Management of the New Service
• Hospital Palliative Care Unit
• Hospital Palliative Care Team
• Free-standing Inpatient Unit/Hospice
• Home Care/Community Palliative Care Services
• Hospice/Palliative Day Care Unit
• Human Resources
• Hospice/Palliative Care Volunteers
• Orientation, Training and Education
• Communication
• Documentation
• Resources
• References