Illness
Definition:
Absence of wellness due to disease or another condition.
An acute illness is one that is recent in onset and likely
to be time-limited. If severe, it could be life threatening.
A chronic illness is likely to persist for months to years.
With progression it may become life threatening.
An advanced illness is likely to be progressive and life threatening.
A life-threatening illness is likely to lead to death in the near future.
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CAPCManual Attribution:
von Gunten CF,
Ferris FD,
Portenoy RK,
Glajchen M, eds.
CAPCManual: How to Establish A Palliative Care Program.
New York, NY: Center to Advance Palliative Care, 2001.
©
Center for Palliative Studies, San Diego Hospice & Palliative Care, San Diego, CA
and
The Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, NY, 2001
Permission to reproduce for non-commercial educational purposes with display of
attribution and
copyright is granted.
Last updated: February 20, 2002
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Lexicon
Select alphabetic range:
A-B, C-D, E-I, J-O,
P-Q, R-S, T-Z
A - B
Accountability
Activities of Daily Living
Advance Directives
Alternative, Complementary, Integrative Therapies
Assess
Assisted Living
Baseline
Benchmarking
Bereavement
Bottom-up Planning
C - D
Care
Caregiver
Care Plan
Change
Core Competencies
Critical issues
Critical Success Factors
Custodial Care
Customer
Customer Delight
Customer Satisfaction
Discrimination / Prejudice
Domain
E - I
Effectiveness
Efficiency
Essential Services
Essential Step
Existential Questions
Expectations
Family
Goal
Grief
Group Home
Hospice
Illness
Indices
Interdisciplinary Team
J - O
Life Closure
Mission
Needs
Norms
Nursing Home
Objective
Outcome
Outcome Measure
P - Q
Pain
Palliative Care
Patient
Performance Gap
Performance Indicator
Performance Measure
Performance Measurement
Plan of Care
Policy
Preferred Practice Guideline
Principle
Procedure
Process
Program
Provider
Proxy
Quality Care
Quality of Life
R - S
Rehabilitation
Respite Care
Risk
Service
Setting of Care
Situational Analysis
Skilled Care
Spirituality
Stakeholder
Standard
Strategic Planning
Strategies
Strategy
Subacute Care
Suffering
T - Z
Tactical / Action Planning
Top-down Planning
Total Pain
Transcendental Questions
Unit of Care
Values
Vision
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