Question

How does hospice and palliative care differ from the traditional medical model of health care delivery? What are the benefits to patients who elect these services in lieu of traditional medical care?

Answer 1

Palliative and Traditional Health care:

The palliative care primarily focusses on increasing comfort levels of the patient. They want to emphasize on the patient rather than on the disease. Significant costs savings are also achievable by implementing the palliative health care programs. Where-as the traditional methods aim at finding the root cause of the problem, main emphasis on finding the symptoms of the medical diseases. Traditional care primarily focusses on invasive tests and procedures that perform diagnosis methods.

Point of view	Palliative Health care	Traditional Medical health care
Focus on	Patient’s comfort levels	Finding the root cause of the diseases.
Reimbursement	NI specific reimbursements stream	Reimbursement is possible in traditional modes.
In terms of Cost	Significant costs reduction is possible	Comparatively costly
In terms of Quality	Highly quality oriented	Comparatively abit less qualitative
Based on	Based on Patients comfort levels	Based on diagnosis and lab test results
Place of Treatment	Patient’s home or any patient’s choice.	Only hospitals, diagnosis centers and labs

Benefits of Palliative Health care :

Improves the quality of life.

Relives the pain and discomfort of the disease.

Reduces psychological social stress on the patients.

Avoid prolonged sickness.

Improves patient’s ability to withstand medical treatment pain & pressures.

Facilitates doctor’s to focus more on the underlying illness.