• The Hospice journal · Jan 1998

    Issues in prison hospice: toward a model for the delivery of hospice care in a correctional setting.

    • F W Maull.
    • Hospice Program, U.S. Medical Center for Federal Prisoners, Springfield, MO 65801-4000, USA.
    • Hosp J. 1998 Jan 1; 13 (4): 57-82.

    AbstractThis paper examines issues in prison hospice care based on the author's nine years experience as a prison hospice worker and trainer and on data gathered by the National Prison Hospice Association (NPHA) from a number of federal and state prison medical facilities with operational or developing hospice programs, including both scatter-bed and hospice unit models, employing inmate hospice volunteers and the services of outside community hospice agencies and volunteers. The paper discusses DNR orders and curative vs. palliative care decisions, pain management, AIDS care, interdisciplinary care teams, staff and volunteer training and supervision, and the need for compassionate early release and community placement programs. The author proposes a set of preliminary guidelines for the delivery of hospice care in the correctional setting.

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