Hospice Scales Terms Tools and Measurements
This colorful user-friendly portable clinical guide helps hospice clinicians achieve a specialist expert level of end of life care. It is an essential tool for clinicians for use in day to day hospice care. It contains:
- The Local Coverage Determinations:
- The specific guidelines established by CMS in collaboration with the fiscal intermediaries and / or Medicare Administrative Contractors that details criteria for hospice eligibility.
- These guidelines detail:
- Disease Specific Criteria:
- Cancer Diagnosis
- Non-Cancer Diagnoses
- Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
- Heart Disease
- Liver Disease
- Stroke and coma
- Dementia
- HIV disease
- Pulmonary Disease
- Renal Disease
- Non-Disease Specific Criteria
- Disease Specific Criteria:
- Commonly used hospice scales, tools and measurements such as:
- Functional Assessment Scales such as:
- The Palliative Performance scale
- The Karnofsky scale
- The FAST scale
- Symptom Assessment Scales such as:
- Pain Assessment scales
- Constipation Assessment scale
- Depression assessment scales
- Fatigue assessment
- Functional Assessment Scales such as:
- Hospice Terminology and definitions
- Documentation tips and pointers
- End of Life Care Resources
Clinicians who utilize this clinical guide report the ability to perform their roles more efficiently and effectively. Documentation standards improve with the use of standardized scales and tools.
Consumer Reviews:
MAMAK says on Amazon.com:
As a hospice RN educator, this book has been a valuable resource. It is concise and has a wealth of information regarding documentation to eligibility and necessary hospice criteria. The section describing Local Coverage Determinations (LCD) has been especially helpful to nurses and physicians. It includes a wealth of assessment scales and tools applicable to the pediatric through geriatric patient. If I could have only one resource to use, this would be the one I would choose.
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