Hospital-based Palliative Care Teams

When the first edition of this book (Terminal Care Support Teams: the hospital-hospice interface, 1990) was written, there were only a few advisory palliative care teams working in hospitals. Since then the number of teams has grown rapidly. The concept of these teams in now widely accepted but there is an increased need for information about setting up a team, how they work and how effective they are. This book looks at the challenges of bringing palliative care into the acute hospital setting, reviewing the needs of patients, their families and carers, and also covers the problems which might be encountered both the theoretical and practical.