Hospice and Palliative Care Handbook: Quality, Compliance, and Reimbursement includes everything hospice and palliative care clinicians and managers need to know to effectively provide and document care based on accepted professional standards.

This compact and easy-to-use handbook is the only guide that offers clinicians complete coverage of all hospice-related conditions. It takes the guesswork out of hospice goals, interventions, and outcomes.

This handbook features the following:

• Consistently formatted clinical care guidelines in an easy-to-access alphabetical order that offer specific direction for planning care
• Practical tips for effective, complete documentation designed to meet the requirements of third-party payors such as Medicare
• Needs for visit and safety considerations
• ICD-9 codes and NANDA-approved nursing diagnoses
• Appropriate skilled services and outcomes of care for every member of the hospice team
• Spiritual and emotional considerations and alternative treatment modalities
• Patient and family educational needs and resources for care
• Pain assessment and management resources
• Sample forms and tools, including an audit chart
• Hospice staff orientation guidelines