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A multidisciplinary team can be most effective when dealing with issues of death and dying. This chapter describes how an integrated practice, using resources both within the practice and in the larger community, can best manage a patient during this challenging time. When done well, integrated care can have a profoundly positive effect on both the patient and the patient’s family. This chapter describes how an integrated multidisciplinary team, in a primary care practice, manages key issues in caring for the dying patient. Such issues include advance care planning; communicating bad news; managing medical, emotional, and spiritual issues; palliative care; hospice; and bereavement care.
Title: Death and Dying
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A multidisciplinary team can be most effective when dealing with issues of death and dying.
This chapter describes how an integrated practice, using resources both within the practice and in the larger community, can best manage a patient during this challenging time.
When done well, integrated care can have a profoundly positive effect on both the patient and the patient’s family.
This chapter describes how an integrated multidisciplinary team, in a primary care practice, manages key issues in caring for the dying patient.
Such issues include advance care planning; communicating bad news; managing medical, emotional, and spiritual issues; palliative care; hospice; and bereavement care.
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