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)
- 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
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 Dance for Gloria
Corynna’s Reflections
WHV Partner Networking Call Recording - September 14, 2016
To Joey, With Love
Journal of Palliative Medicine
- It's All a Matter of Perspective
- Response to Legalized Physician-Assisted Death: Check Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
- End-of-Life Care: Whose Decision Is It Anyway? A Case Study in an Assisted Living Facility
- Disenfranchised Grief after the Death of a Palliative Care Colleague
- Acute Myeloblastic Leukemia in the Elderly: How Could Palliative Care Teams and Hematologists Better Work Together?
- Starting and Sustaining Palliative Care in Public Hospitals: Lessons Learned from a Statewide Initiative
- The Effect of 5 Minutes of Mindful Breathing to the Perception of Distress and Physiological Responses in Palliative Care Cancer Patients: A Randomized Controlled Study
- Treatment Recommendations for Respiratory Symptoms in Cancer Patients: Clinical Guidelines from the Japanese Society for Palliative Medicine
- Impact of Inpatient Palliative Care on Treatment Intensity for Patients with Serious Illness
- Evaluation of the Effects of Music and Poetry in Oncologic Pain Relief: A Randomized Clinical Trial
- Internal Lymphedema Correlates with Subjective and Objective Measures of Dysphagia in Head and Neck Cancer Patients
- Gap between Recommendations and Practice of Palliative Care and Hospice in Cancer Patients
- Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Workshops on the Availability and Rational Use of Opioids in Latin America
- Methadone as a Coanalgesic for Palliative Care Cancer Patients
- Interspecialty Differences in Physicians' Attitudes, Beliefs, and Reasons for Withdrawing or Withholding Hypercalcemia Treatment in Terminally Ill Patients
- Interprofessional Silence at the End of Life: Do Swiss General Practitioners and Hospital Physicians Sufficiently Share Information About Their Patients?
- A National Study of Live Hospice Discharges between 2000 and 2012
- Predictors of Trust in the Medical Profession among Cancer Patients Receiving Palliative Care: A Preliminary Study
- Populations and Interventions for Palliative and End-of-Life Care: A Systematic Review
- Thirst in Palliative Care #313
- Chemotherapy: Response and Survival Data #99
- At Least They Know I Give a Damn!
- A War Within
- Thirty Minutes of Madness
- Go Gently
- New Media, Part Three: Online Advance Care Planning Tools
- Experience of Low-Dose, Short-Course Palliative Radiotherapy for Bleeding from Unresectable Gastric Cancer
- Sedation by Propofol for Painful Care Procedures at the End of Life: A Pilot Study. PROPOPAL 1
- 2016 Taipei Declaration for Prevention of Suffering
- Predictors for Development of Pressure Ulcer in End-of-Life Care: A National Quality Register Study
- Exploring the Value of a Podiatric Consult in Palliative Wound Care
- A Wound Closed: A Memoir
- Palliative Care for End-Stage Liver Disease Population
- Schizophrenic Patients with Cancer Hospitalized at Psychiatric Hospitals in Japan
- Chemo and Crackers
- Sudden Death During Palliative Radiotherapy for a Relapsed Osteosarcoma
- Feasibility Testing of an Emergency Department Screening Tool to Identify Older Adults Appropriate for Palliative Care Consultation
- Characterizing End-of-Life Care after Geriatric Burns at a Verified Level I Burn Center
- End-of-Life Care in Patients with Metastatic Lung Cancer Harboring Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor Mutations
- Characteristics Associated with In-Hospital Death among Commercially Insured Decedents with Cancer
- The Palliative Performance Scale Predicts Three- and Six-Month Survival in Older Adult Patients Admitted to the Hospital through the Emergency Department
- Improving Prognostic Web Calculators: Violation of Preferential Risk Independence
- Availability of Advance Care Planning Documentation for Older Emergency Department Patients: A Cross-Sectional Study
- Perceived Symptom Experience in Head and Neck Cancer Patients with Lymphedema
- Let Us Talk About It: Heart Failure Patients' Preferences Toward Discussions about Prognosis, Advance Care Planning, and Spiritual Support
- Culinary Grief Therapy: Cooking for One Series
- Physical Symptoms at the Time of Dying Was Diagnosed: A Consecutive Cohort Study To Describe the Prevalence and Intensity of Problems Experienced by Imminently Dying Palliative Care Patients by Diagnosis and Place of Care
- Analgesic Effectiveness of Systemic Lidocaine Administration for Abdominal Cancer Pain Caused by Peritoneal Carcinomatosis: A Case Series of 10 Patients
- Reflect
- Reflections of a Young Cancer Caregiver
- Physician-Reported Symptoms and Interventions in People with Intellectual Disabilities Approaching End of Life
- Assessing Preparatory Grief in Advanced Cancer Patients as an Independent Predictor of Distress in an American Population
- Reflections on a Palliative Care Fellowship
- Cataract Surgery in Hospice Patients: Pros, Cons, and Cost-Effectiveness
- Accuracy of Oncologists' Life-Expectancy Estimates Recalled by Their Advanced Cancer Patients: Correlates and Outcomes
- Role Playing of Predischarge Family Conference as an Educational Approach of Regional Palliative Care for Medical Profession: A Pilot Study
- The Impact of a Home-Based Palliative Care Program in an Accountable Care Organization
- I Needed You Guys
- A Survey of Perinatal Palliative Care Programs in the United States: Structure, Processes, and Outcomes
- The Impact of Hospice Services in the Care of Patients with Advanced Stage Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer
- Pediatric Palliative Care and Child Psychiatry: A Model for Enhancing Practice and Collaboration
- A Prognostic Indicator for Patients Hospitalized with Heart Failure
- End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes: From Care Processes to Quality
- Self-Reported California Hospital Palliative Care Program Composition, Certification, and Staffing Level Are Associated with Lower End-of-Life Medicare Utilization
- Until Death Do Us Part
- Division of Responsibility
- The Default Dilemma: Code Status Regardless of Medical Context
- Response to the Article Multi-Ethnic Attitudes Toward Physician-Assisted Death in California and Hawai'i: Selection of Respondents Creates Fatally Flawed Study
- Etiology of Pain and Its Association with Quality of Life among Patients with Heart Failure
- Care in the Final Month of Life among Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Patients in Kaiser Permanente Southern California
- Two Days
- End-of-Life Medical Treatments in the Last Two Weeks of Life in Palliative Care Units in Japan, 2005–2006: A Nationwide Retrospective Cohort Survey
- Factors Associated with Family Reports of Pain, Dyspnea, and Depression in the Last Year of Life
- Pediatric Palliative Care Program versus Usual Care and Healthcare Resource Utilization in British Columbia: A Matched-Pairs Cohort Study
- On the Edge
- Patterns of Cost for Patients Dying in the Intensive Care Unit and Implications for Cost Savings of Palliative Care Interventions
- A Retrospective Study on the Effectiveness of Switching to Oral Methadone for Relieving Severe Cancer-Related Neuropathic Pain and Limiting Adjuvant Analgesic Use in Japan
- Scripted Nurse Visits: A Resource-Efficient Palliative Care Model for Ventricular Assist Devices
- Evidence for Neurotoxicity Due to Morphine or Hydromorphone in Renal Impairment: A Systematic Review
- Unmet Learning Needs of Physicians in Specialty Training in Palliative Care: A Japanese Nationwide Study
- The Center of Chaos
- Improving Comfort of Patients with Ureteral Obstruction and Malignant Disease Should Be of Concern
- Effectiveness of Hospital Palliative Care Teams for Cancer Inpatients: A Systematic Review
- Can We Detect Transfusion Benefits in Palliative Care Patients?
- Should Professionals Attend the Funeral?
- A Patient-Reported Outcome Instrument to Facilitate Timing of End-of-Life Discussions among Patients with Advanced Cancers
- Development of the Quality Data Collection Tool for Prospective Quality Assessment and Reporting in Palliative Care
- Personally Meaningful Rituals: A Way to Increase Compassion and Decrease Burnout among Hospice Staff and Volunteers
- Estimation of Risk in Cancer Patients Undergoing Palliative Procedures by the American College of Surgeons Risk Calculator
- Enjoy. Shuffle. Repeat: Using Personalized Music Playlists To Improve the Quality of Life for People with Dementia
- “In Memory of Those Who Left”: How “Thank You” Letters Are Perceived and Used as a Team Empowerment Motivational Factor by a Home-Based Palliative Care Team in the Azorean Islands
- A Procedural Approach to Teaching Residents To Conduct Intensive Care Unit Family Conferences
- Predictors of Mortality for Delirium in Palliative Care
- Antimicrobial Use in Patients on a Comfort Care Protocol: A Retrospective Cohort Study
- Survey on Clinician Perceptions and Practices Regarding Goals of Care Conversations
- Prognosis in HIV and AIDS #213
- Truth: And a Piece of Bread
- “Teacher”
- Multi-Ethnic Attitudes Toward Physician-Assisted Death in California and Hawaii
- Clinician as Medical Story Teller
- Olanzapine for Nausea, Delirium, Anxiety, Insomnia, and Cachexia #315
- Mirtazapine: A Drug with Many Palliative Uses #314
- Effects of Combat and Military Training on End-of-Life Care
- Alaska
- Journey to Here
- Utilizing Risk Readmission Assessment Tool for Nonhospice Palliative Care Consults in Heart Failure Patients
- Mindfulness Self-Care Strategies for Clinicians #316
- Missing Friends
- Evaluating the End
- Screening for Intimacy Concerns in a Palliative Care Population: Findings from a Pilot 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)
- Palliative Care (ACP)
- On a mission to transform end-of-life care (SCOPE)
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