Palliative Care
Journals
Books
Print Books
- Being Mortal: medicine and what matters in the end
- The Best Way to Say Goodbye: A Legal Peaceful Choice at the End of Life
- 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
- Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
- Palliative aspects of emergency care
- Palliative Care Perspectives
- Research Methods in Palliative Care
- When Breath Becomes Air
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
NHPCO Edge
Valentine's Day moments
Final Thoughts
The Importance of Partnerships
PubMed
- Care of adults in the last days of life: summary of NICE guidance.
- Review care of dying patients daily, says new NICE guideline.
- Finding privacy from a public death: a qualitative exploration of how a dedicated space for end-of-life care in an acute hospital impacts on dying patients and their families.
- Appeal Court will decide whether a patient has right to be consulted before a "do not attempt resuscitation" note is put in notes.
- Doctors should care for people who choose to die by starvation, says Dutch Medical Association.
Journal of Palliative Medicine
- A Loss Unlike Any Other
- Exploring the Definition of an Informed Health Care Proxy
- Use of Propofol To Manage Nonmalignant Intractable Nausea and Vomiting: A Case Study
- Opioids and Chronic Pain in Cancer Survivors: Evolving Practice for Palliative Care Clinics
- Making the Case for Palliative Care at the System Level: Outcomes Data
- Clinical Criteria for Physician Aid in Dying
- End-of-Life Cancer Care: Temporal Association between Homecare Nursing and Hospitalizations
- Patient Home Visits: Measuring Outcomes of a Community Model for Palliative Care Education
- Provision of Services in Perinatal Palliative Care: A Multicenter Survey in the United States
- The Effect of Palliative Care Team Design on Referrals to Pediatric Palliative Care
- Using Nurse Ratings of Physician Communication in the ICU To Identify Potential Targets for Interventions To Improve End-of-Life Care
- The Impact of Advance Directives on End-of-Life Care for Adolescents and Young Adults Undergoing Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant
- An Order Protocol for Respiratory Distress/Acute Pain Crisis in Pediatric Palliative Care Patients: Medical and Nursing Staff Perceptions
- Knowledge of Cancer Stage among Women with Nonmetastatic Breast Cancer
- 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
- Medical Student Training on Code Status Discussions: How Far Have We Come?
- Parental Perspectives of Communication at the End of Life at a Pediatric Oncology Institution
- Nonpharmacologic Management Strategies in ALS #300
- Pharmacologic Management Strategies in ALS #301
- Bearing Witness to the Exit: Depriving Death of Its Strangeness
- New Media, Part One: Tool Apps for Palliative Care Providers
- The High Burden of Palliative Care Needs among Older Emergency General Surgery Patients
- Locked-In Syndrome #303
- Dysgeusia #304
- The Senses and Cancer
- The Teacher
- The Pendulum Swings for Opioid Prescribing
- Prospective Study on Music Therapy in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients during Specialized Inpatient Palliative Care
- Moving Toward a Field of Palliative Psychology
- Neutrophil-Lymphocyte Ratio Predicts Survival in Terminal Cancer Patients
- A State-Level Assessment of Hospital-Based Palliative Care and the Use of Life-Sustaining Therapies in the United States
- A Hospital-Based Advance Care Planning Intervention for Patients with Heart Failure: A Feasibility Study
- Resident-Led Palliative Care Education Project
- Fifty-Eight Years a Palliative Medicine Physician
- Do Symptoms among Home Palliative Care Patients with Advanced Cancer Decide the Place of Death? Focusing on the Presence or Absence of Symptoms during Home Care
- Development of a Method for Transferring Paraplegic Patients with Advanced Cancer from Bed to Wheelchair
- The Adaptation, Face, and Content Validation of a Needs Assessment Tool: Progressive Disease for People with Interstitial Lung Disease
- Adherence to Adjuvant Neuropathic Pain Medications in a Palliative Care Clinic
- Pilot Evaluation of Auricular Acupressure in End-Stage Lung Cancer Patients
- ICU versus Non-ICU Hospital Death: Family Member Complicated Grief, Posttraumatic Stress, and Depressive Symptoms
- A Hospice Rotation for Military Medical Residents: A Mixed Methods, Multi-Perspective Program Evaluation
- The Prevalence of Inpatients at Thirty-Three U.S. Hospitals Appropriate for and Receiving Referral to Palliative Care
- Feasibility of a Comfort Care Protocol Using Oral Transmucosal Medication Delivery in a Palliative Neonatal Population
- Death in the Digital Age: A Systematic Review of Information and Communication Technologies in End-of-Life Care
- First Do No Harm in End-of-Life Care: A Comment on the 2015 American Heart Association Guidelines for Post-Resuscitation Care of Cardiopulmonary Arrest
- Impact of Home Hospice Care on Patients with Advanced Lung Cancer: A Longitudinal Population-Based Study in Taiwan
- Patient-Reported Barriers to High-Quality, End-of-Life Care: A Multiethnic, Multilingual, Mixed-Methods Study
- Drug-Induced Acute Urinary Retention #287
- Why Interdisciplinary Teams Ten Years Later?
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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