Health Care

Hospices

Facilities or services which are especially devoted to providing palliative and supportive care to the patient with a terminal illness and to the patient's family.

National Library of MedicineMedical Subject Headings2026

Structured Summary

Abstract

Facilities or services which are especially devoted to providing palliative and supportive care to the patient with a terminal illness and to the patient's family.

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Synonyms

1 entry terms
  • Hospice

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Aspects Covered

11 allowable subheadings

Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, supply & distribution, trends.

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Indexing Annotation

"palliative & supportive care to the dying patient & his family"; specify geog

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History Note

80(Aug 77); was see under HOSPITALS, SPECIAL Aug 77-79

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Previous Indexing

  • Hospitals, Special (1968-Jul 1977)

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  1. N02.278w.421w.556.185w
  2. N02.421.143.550w

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References

  1. National Library of Medicine. Hospices. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D006738. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D006738
  2. Hospices. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hospice
  3. Hospices. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q608152