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End of Life Online Curriculum - Modules
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Home Hospice
: Home Care of the Dying Patient |
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Cancer
The patient has:
- Clinical findings of malignancy with widespread, aggressive or metastatic
disease or
- Decline in performance status and/or significant unintentional weight
loss
Note: The patient may still receive disease-specific treatment if
it is palliative.
The following information will be needed if available:
- This patient has evidence of malignant histopathology (define the
cell type)
- A neoplastic histopathology is not available because (describe circumstances
and basis for presumptive diagnosis)
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of Life Curriculum Project, a joint project of the US Veterans Administration
and SUMMIT,
Stanford University Medical School.
Funded by a grant to the Veterans
Administration Nationwide Palliative Care Network by
the National Library of Medicine. VJ Periyakoil, MD, Director.
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