Palliative Care
Journals
Books
Print Books
- Being Mortal: medicine and what matters in the end
- Changing the way we die : compassionate end-of-life care and the hospice movement
- Cicely Saunders Selected Writings 1958-2004
- Clinician's Handbook of Symptoms Relief in Palliative Care (Amazon)
- The Divine Art of Dying: How to Live Well While Dying 2014
- Introducing Palliative Care
- Knocking on Heaven's Door : the Path to a Better Way of Death
- Palliative aspects of emergency care
- Palliative Care Perspectives
- Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
- Research Methods in Palliative Care
Websites
Definitions
Advance Care Planning
- National Institute on Aging
- POLST
- MOLST (NY)
- MOLST (MA)
- MOLST (MD)
- Advance Directives NCI)
- Doctor, How Long Have I Got? (InteliHealth)
- Communication with Your Family and Your Doctor about Your Wishes (ACEP)
- Conversations Before the Crisis (NHPCO)
- Stanford Letter Project
- Talking about End-of-life Treatment Decisions (AHRQ)
- If You or Someone You Love is Very Ill... Ask Tough Questions (NHPCO)
- End of Life Choices - CPR and DNR (FCA)
Specific Conditions
- Artificial Hydration and Nutrition (AAFP)
- Food and Fluid Issues at End of Life (HPNA)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) (AAFP)
- End of Life Choices - Feeding Tubes and Ventilators (FCA)
- End of Life: Caring for a Dying Loved One (Mayo)
- How Can an Emergency Department Assist Patients and Caregivers at the End of Life? (ACEP)
- Things to Do After Someone Dies (NIA)
- What Happens When Someone Dies? (NIA)
- When You Have Pain at the End-of-Life (ACP)
Children
Patient Handouts
Videos
Associations
- Alzheimer’s Association
- American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM)
- Center to Advance Palliative Care
- European Association for Palliative Care
- Family Caregiver Alliance
- Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association (HPNA)
- Hospice Foundation of America
- National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization
- National Institute of Nursing Research
- National Palliative Care Research Center
Coping
Research
Related Issues
Directories
Patient Financial Issues
Stanford Grand Rounds
- Good Communication is Not Magic: An Empirical Approach to Talking with Seriously Ill Patients
- A Wise Choice: Palliative Sedation for Refractory Pain and Suffering at the End-of-Life
- The Two Minute Drill: Tools for Conducting Crucial Conversations
- Integrating Palliative Care into Out-Patient Cancer Care
Stanford Palliative on YouTube
Can We Talk?: An interview with Dr. Stephanie Pincus, Institute of Medicine on End-of-life care
Self Care: What doctors do
Can we talk? Helping our loved ones express their end-of-life wishes
MedEd 2.0: Competency Based Medical Education, by Eric Holmboe, MD : Chapter 6 of 6
National Hospice on YouTube
A Chance to Fly
toddhenry nhpco
Deadra's Story
Bringing the Positive Message of Hospice and Palliative Care… to the Skies
PubMed
- Burden of caring: risks and consequences imposed on caregivers of those living and dying with advanced heart failure.
- Parenting challenges in the setting of terminal illness: a family-focused perspective.
- The supportive roles of religion and spirituality in end-of-life and palliative care of patients with cancer in a culturally diverse context: a literature review.
- Understanding death with limited experience in life: dying children's and adolescents' understanding of their own terminal illness and death.
- Existential distress among healthcare providers caring for patients at the end of life.
- Improving the quality of end-of-life discussions.
- Heart failure and palliative care: training needs assessment to guide priority learning of multiprofessionals working across different care settings.
- Desire for hastened death: exploring the emotions and the ethics.
- Supporting youth grieving the dying or death of a sibling or parent: considerations for parents, professionals, and communities.
- Palliative and end-of-life care issues in chronic kidney disease.
- Medically provided hydration and nutrition in infants: ethical considerations.
Journal of Palliative Medicine
- Do Not Assume!
- Things I Wish I Knew about Nursing Homes Before I Worked There
- Impact of Staffing on Access to Palliative Care in U.S. Hospitals
- Clergy Views on a Good Versus a Poor Death: Ministry to the Terminally Ill
- Does Diagnosis Make a Difference? Comparing Hospice Care Satisfaction in Matched Cohorts of Heart Failure and Cancer Caregivers
- Advanced Cancer and End-of-Life Preferences: Curative Intent Surgery Versus Noncurative Intent Treatment
- Does Disclosure of Terminal Prognosis Mean Losing Hope? Insights from Exploring Patient Perspectives on Their Experience of Palliative Care Consultations
- Exploring the Relationship of Patient and Informal Caregiver Characteristics with Heart Failure Self-Care Using the Actor-Partner Interdependence Model: Implications for Outpatient Palliative Care
- Identification of Challenges to the Availability and Accessibility of Opioids in Twelve European Countries: Conclusions from Two ATOME Six-Country Workshops
- Time to Death after Terminal Withdrawal of Mechanical Ventilation: Specific Respiratory and Physiologic Parameters May Inform Physician Predictions
- Gender Differences in Caregiving at End of Life: Implications for Hospice Teams
- Preferred and Actual Location of Death: What Factors Enable a Preferred Home Death?
- Nebulized Tranexamic Acid as a Noninvasive Therapy for Cancer-Related Hemoptysis
- A Quantitative Framework Classifying the Palliative Care Workforce into Specialist and Generalist Components
- Impact of a Palliative Care Program on Tracheostomy Utilization in a Community Hospital
- Terminal Hemorrhage Preparation and Management #297
- Flying Away: Music as a Means for Letting Go at the End of Life
- Modern Marvels of Children's Palliative Care
- Waiting for an Answer: Hospice Care and Novel Immunotherapy
- Cleansing of Body and Spirit
- Spiritual Accompaniment and Counseling: Journeying with Psyche and Soul
- End-of-Life Preferences in Advanced Cancer Patients
- Response to Letter “End-of-Life Preferences in Advanced Cancer Patients”
- CARE Track for Advanced Cancer: Impact and Timing of an Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic
- The Costs of Waiting: Implications of the Timing of Palliative Care Consultation among a Cohort of Decedents at a Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Perceptions of the Pediatric Hospice Experience among English- and Spanish-Speaking Families
- Impact of Home Hospice Care on Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer: A Longitudinal Population-Based Study in Taiwan
- Technology and the Future of Palliative Care Education
- Intensity of Medical Interventions between Diagnosis and Death in Patients with Advanced Lung and Colorectal Cancer: A CanCORS Analysis
- Medical Student Training On Code Status Discussions: How Far Have We Come?
- Avoiding Spending While Meeting Patients' Wishes: A Model of Community-Based Palliative Care Uptake in California from 2014–2022
- Winged Metal Needles versus Plastic Winged and Nonwinged Cannulae for Subcutaneous Infusions in Palliative Care: A Quality Improvement Project To Enhance Patient Care and Medical Staff Safety in a Singaporean Hospital
- Teaching Surgery Residents the Skills to Communicate Difficult News to Patient and Family Members: A Literature Review
- Patient-Reported Barriers to High-Quality, End-of-Life Care: A Multiethnic, Multilingual, Mixed-Methods Study
- Palliative Surgery for Advanced Cancer: Identifying Evidence-Based Criteria for Patient Selection: Case Report and Review of Literature
- Clinical Criteria for Physician Aid in Dying
- Correlates of Family Satisfaction with Hospice Care: General Inpatient Hospice Care versus Routine Home Hospice Care
- The Effect of Community-Based Specialist Palliative Care Teams on Place of Care
- Consensus-Based Palliative Care Competencies for Undergraduate Nurses and Physicians: A Demonstrative Process with Colombian Universities
- The Growth of Palliative Care in U.S. Hospitals: A Status Report
- Olanzapine in the Management of Difficult to Control Nausea and Vomiting in a Palliative Care Population: A Case Series
- Persistent Diarrhea after Celiac Plexus Block in a Pancreatic Cancer Patient: Case Report and Literature Review
- Drug-Induced Acute Urinary Retention #287
- Why Interdisciplinary Teams Ten Years Later?
- Comparing Symptom Burden in Patients with Metastatic and Nonmetastatic Cancer
Recommended
- A Practical Guide to Improving End-of-Life Care
- Community Discussions: A Vision for Cutting the Costs of End-of-Life
- Courage, Leadership, and End-of-Life Care: When Courage Counts
- Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer. Temel et al.
- In the End, it May Not Be About Medicine (Reuters Health)
- More Visits from Hospice May Allow Death at Home (Reuters Health)
- Pivotal articles via CAPC
- On a mission to transform end-of-life care (SCOPE)
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