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Differences Between Palliative and Hospice Care

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Differences Between Palliative and Hospice Care

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Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif is a medical director who leads various practices, including Vanguard Physician Group, Traditions Hospice, and Sunrise Health. Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif specializes in palliative and hospice care besides being a surgeon. Hospice and palliative care are often used interchangeably. However, both types of care differ in delivery.

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Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif is a medical director who leads various practices, including Vanguard Physician Group, Traditions Hospice, and Sunrise Health. Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif specializes in palliative and hospice care besides being a surgeon. Hospice and palliative care are often used interchangeably. However, both types of care differ in delivery.

Palliative care is a medical field that improves the quality of life of a patient. It includes treating symptoms such as nausea, sleep problems, or pain. It helps a patient understand their illness better, talk openly about how they feel, decide on a choice of treatment, and communicate better with their physician and nurse.

Palliative care is not dependent on the illness' stage and is available when the patient is diagnosed, whether they are receiving life-prolonging or curative treatments. On the other hand, hospice care is only available towards the patient's life end. It is usually recommended when the sickness is no longer curable or when the patient has decided to forego any life-prolonging treatment. For a patient to qualify for hospice care, they might have less than six months to live.

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Differences Between Palliative and Hospice Care

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Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif is a medical director who leads various practices, including Vanguard Physician Group, Traditions Hospice, and Sunrise Health. Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif specializes in palliative and hospice care besides being a surgeon. Hospice and palliative care are often used interchangeably. However, both types of care differ in delivery.

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Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif possesses over 10 years of experience handling different medical practices such as Sunrise Health and Traditions Hospice, Anthem Hospice, and Vanguard Physician Group. Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif is certified by the American College of Surgeons to practice palliative and hospice care.

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Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif possesses over 10 years of experience handling different medical practices such as Sunrise Health and Traditions Hospice, Anthem Hospice, and Vanguard Physician Group. Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif is certified by the American College of Surgeons to practice palliative and hospice care.

Hospice care is a kind of healthcare that seeks to provide support, comfort, and dignity towards the end of a patient's life, especially among senior citizens. According to Medicare, every caregiver offering hospice care should offer their patients four levels of care. They include:

1. Routine home care

This hospice care type is the primary form of hospice care that the caregiver provides in the nursing home, assisted living facility, or the patient's home. It includes spiritual support, medication, bereavement counseling for the patient's family, and medical social services.

2. Continuous home care

This type of hospice care involves a nurse staying in the patient's house for a long time. It's always required when the patient is experiencing a medical crisis, resulting in severe symptoms like shortness of breath or severe pain. However, if the medical emergency demands advanced care for the patient, the hospice caregiver may opt for general inpatient care.

3. General inpatient care

Depending on the level of symptoms a patient might display, the caregiver might decide on general inpatient hospice care. People with severe symptoms who cannot get proper treatment at home will also need to consider general inpatient care. At an inpatient facility, there are nurses available always to administer treatments and medications, while offering emotional support to the patients.

4. Respite care

This hospice care type offered only by Medicare-certified inpatient hospice care facilities is for unpaid family caregivers to relieve them of the caregiving work for a short period.

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Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif possesses over 10 years of experience handling different medical practices such as Sunrise Health and Traditions Hospice, Anthem Hospice, and Vanguard Physician Group. Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif is certified by the American College of Surgeons to practice palliative and hospice care. Hospice care is a kind of healthcare that seeks to...

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Importance of Consent and Informed Decision-Making in Health Care

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Importance of Consent and Informed Decision-Making in Health Care

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Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif is a Mesa, Arizona health care practitioner who guides practices such as the Vanguard Physician Group and Traditions Hospice. Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif and his team provide palliative care that is holistically centered in elements such as cultural, social, and spiritual preferences, as well as medical and nursing needs.

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Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif is a Mesa, Arizona health care practitioner who guides practices such as the Vanguard Physician Group and Traditions Hospice. Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif and his team provide palliative care that is holistically centered in elements such as cultural, social, and spiritual preferences, as well as medical and nursing needs.

One major aspect of the palliative care equation is the concept of consent. This is provided either by the patient, or those to whom medical decision-making responsibilities have been assigned. Consent is required to begin any course of treatment, and also to end it.

In practical terms, this means that the physician typically assesses treatment options and determines which are appropriate or inappropriate. Reasonable options, as well as those not recommended, are then discussed with the patient. While medical jargon may be used among highly informed patients, many will want assessment criterion and recommendations laid out in layman's terms that are easy to follow.

In a majority of cases, patients who have been clearly and adequately informed will accept professional recommendations. That said, a majority of patients prefer to have a shared role in decision-making. This is an aspect of the consent concept that a significant number of medical practitioners neglect.

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Importance of Consent and Informed Decision-Making in Health Care

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Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif is a Mesa, Arizona health care practitioner who guides practices such as the Vanguard Physician Group and Traditions Hospice. Dr. Khalid Mahmoud Shirif and his team provide palliative care that is holistically centered in elements such as cultural, social, and spiritual preferences, as well as medical and nursing needs.