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Valuing the Spiritual

Identifying reforms that minimize US healthcare costs is imperative. This commentary explores one intervention with potential cost-saving implications that has received comparably minimal consideration: spiritual care provision. It highlights the staff and patient costing benefits of spiritual care...

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Autores principales: Hall, Eric J., Powell, Richard A.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897417/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33611680
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01206-9
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spelling pubmed-78974172021-02-22 Valuing the Spiritual Hall, Eric J. Powell, Richard A. J Relig Health Original Paper Identifying reforms that minimize US healthcare costs is imperative. This commentary explores one intervention with potential cost-saving implications that has received comparably minimal consideration: spiritual care provision. It highlights the staff and patient costing benefits of spiritual care in addressing spiritual distress and urges practical policy and research initiatives to maximize its impact. Springer US 2021-02-21 2021 /pmc/articles/PMC7897417/ /pubmed/33611680 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10943-021-01206-9 Text en © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC part of Springer Nature 2021 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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