Palliative Care
Journals
Books
Print Books
- 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)
- 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
- Coping with Cancer (National Cancer Institute)
- End of Life/ Palliative Education Resource Center
- Get Palliative Care
- Nearing the End of Life (American Cancer Society)
Blogs
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)
- National Hospice & Palliative Care Organization
- National Institute of Nursing Research
- National Palliative Care Research Center
Definitions
Advance Care Planning
- National Institute on Aging
- POLST
- MOLST (NY)
- MOLST (MA)
- MOLST (MD)
- Advance Directives Factsheet (NCI)
- Doctor, How Long Have I Got? (InteliHealth)
- Communication with Your Family and Your Doctor about Your Wishes (ACEP)
- Conversations Before the Crisis (NHPCO) (PDF)
- Talking about End-of-life Treatment Decisions (AHRQ)
- If You or Someone You Love is Very Ill... Ask Tough Questions (NHPCO) (PDF)
- End of Life Choices - CPR and DNR (FCA)
Specific Conditions
- Artificial Hydration and Nutrition (AAFP)
- Food and Fluid Issues at End of Life (HPNA) (PDF)
- Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) (AAFP)
- End of Life Choices - Feeding Tubes and Ventilators (FCA)
- End of Life: Caring for a Dying Loved One (Mayo)
- Final Days (HPNA) (PDF)
- 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) (PDF)
Videos
DVDs
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
Moments of Grace
Don's July 2014 Video Message
Global Partners in Care
Marylyn McPherson audio recording
Journal of Palliative Medicine
- Palliative Care Referral among Patients Hospitalized with Advanced Heart Failure
- Palliative Care for Severely Affected Patients with Multiple Sclerosis: When and Why? Results of a Delphi Survey of Health Care Professionals
- World Health Organization Authorities Promote Greater Attention and Action on Palliative Care
- Association between Quality of End-of-Life Care and Possible Complicated Grief among Bereaved Family Members
- The Volume of Hydration in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients with Hydration-Related Symptoms: A Prospective Study
- David
- Book and Media ReviewsFeature Editors: Juliet Jacobsen and Jane deLima Thomas
- Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy #197
- Six Weeks in Soweto: An Australian Experience of Palliative Medicine in South Africa
- Self-Reflections on Mortality among Hospice Patients?
- Avoiding Death on Rounds
- I Really Hate Goodbyes
- Feasibility of a Palliative Care Intervention for Cancer Patients in Phase I Clinical Trials
- The Power of Advance Care Planning in Promoting Hospice and Out-of-Hospital Death in a Dialysis Unit
- Components and Principles of a Pediatric Palliative Care Consultation: Results of a Delphi Study
- Feasibility and Impact of a Physical Exercise Program in Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Pilot Study
- Interventions to Improve Hospice and Palliative Care Referral: A Systematic Review
- Family Structure, Experiences with End-of-Life Decision Making, and Who Asked About Advance Directives Impacts Advance Directive Completion Rates
- End-of-Life Health Care Utilization in Hospitals with Compared to Those without Palliative Care Programs
- Going for A-SURF: Simple Tool for Interdisciplinary Triage of Inpatient Palliative Care Consults
- Communication in Palliative Medicine: A Clinical Review of Family Conferences
- End-of-Life Care Planning: Improving Documentation of Advance Directives in the Outpatient Clinic using Electronic Medical Records
- Economic Impact of Hospital Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation: Review of Current Evidence and Directions for Future Research
- Communication Intervention in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit: Can It Backfire?
- A Randomized Phase II Study To Assess the Effectiveness of Fluid Therapy or Intensive Nutritional Support on Survival in Patients with Advanced Cancer Who Cannot be Nourished via Enteral Route
- Sharing Life-Altering Information: Development of Pediatric Hospital Guidelines and Team Training
- A Qualitative Exploration of Perceived Key Knowledge and Skills in End-of-Life Care in Dementia Patients among Medical, Nursing, and Pharmacy Students
- The Interdisciplinary Curriculum for Oncology Palliative Care Education (iCOPE): Meeting the Challenge of Interprofessional Education
- Missed Opportunities To Train Medical Students in Generalist Palliative Care during Core Clerkships
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Pre-Irradiation Evaluation and Management of Brain Metastases
- Factors Associated with In-Hospital Death by Site of Consultation among Elderly Inpatients Receiving Pain and Palliative Care Consultations
- End-of-Life Care Characteristics for Young Adults with Cancer Who Die in the Hospital
- Advance Care Planning: Challenges and Approaches for Pediatricians
- Response to Pain Management among Patients with Active Cancer, No Evidence of Disease, or Chronic Nonmalignant Pain in an Outpatient Palliative Care Clinic
- Patients Surviving Six Months in Hospice Care: Who Are They?
- Reframing the Goals of Care Conversation: “We're in a Different Place”
- Outpatient Palliative Care for Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: A Case Series
- Impact of a Hospice Emergency Kit for Veterans and Their Caregivers: A Prospective Cohort Study
- Educating Medical Students about the Personal Meaning of Terminal Illness Using the Film, “Wit”
- Effectiveness of the Buccal Mucosa Route for Methadone Administration at the End of Life
- Dexmedetomidine as Adjuvant Therapy for Acute Postoperative Neuropathic Pain Crisis
- A Hospice-Hospital Partnership—Reducing Hospitalization Costs and 30-Day Readmissions among Seriously Ill Adults
- New Symptom-Based Predictive Tool for Survival at Seven and Thirty Days Developed by Palliative Home Care Teams
- Can Hospices Predict which Patients Will Die within Six Months?
- Delirium in Advanced Cancer: Screening for the Incidence on Admission to an Inpatient Hospice Unit
- Comparison of Three Shortened Questionnaires for Assessment of Quality of Life in Advanced Cancer
- The Relationship between Self-Efficacy and Anxiety and General Distress in Caregivers of People with Advanced Cancer
- Safety and Efficacy of the PleurX Catheter for the Treatment of Malignant Ascites
- What's Missing in Missing Data? Omissions in Survey Responses among Parents of Children with Advanced Cancer
- Perceptions of Lethal Fetal Abnormality among Perinatal Professionals and the Challenges of Neonatal Palliative Care
- Treatment of Painful Extraspinal Bone Metastases with Percutaneous Bipolar Radiofrequency Under Local Anesthesia: Feasibility and Efficacy in Twenty-Eight Cases
- Transdermal Clonidine in Patients with Swallowing Dysfunction
- Evaluation of Advance Directives Video Education for Patients
- Comparing Symptom Burden in Patients with Metastatic and Nonmetastatic Cancer
- Abstracts from the; Center to Advance Palliative Care National Seminar New Trends. Proven Solutions.; November 10–12, 2011; San Diego, California
- Evaluation of Spinal Cord Compression #237
- In This Issue
- Still So Difficult
- You Keep Using That Term
- Long-Term Macrolide Antibiotic Therapy May Prevent the Development of Pneumonia in the Elderly
- Begging To Be Heard
- Engaging Heart Failure Clinicians To Increase Palliative Care Referrals: Overcoming Barriers, Improving Techniques
- Quality of Life and Outcomes after Nonintubated versus Intubated Video-Thoracoscopic Pleurodesis for Malignant Pleural Effusion: Comparison by a Case-Matched Study
- Quality Measures for Hospice and Palliative Care: Piloting the PEACE Measures
- Discharge Patterns, Survival Outcomes, and Changes in Clinical Management of Hospitalized Adult Patients with Cancer with a Do-Not-Resuscitate Order
- Why is High-Quality Research on Palliative Care So Hard To Do? Barriers to Improved Research from a Survey of Palliative Care Researchers
- Impact of Research Participation on Parents of Seriously Ill Children
- External Validation of the Number of Risk Factors Score in a Palliative Care Outpatient Clinic at a Comprehensive Cancer Center
- Specialized Home Palliative Care for Adults and Children: Differences and Similarities
- Palliative Gastrostomy in the Setting of Voluminous Ascites
- Medical Talc Pleurodesis: Which Patient with Cancer Benefits Least?
- Sexual History Taking: A Dying Skill?
- What Did I Miss? A Qualitative Assessment of the Impact of Patient Suicide on Hospice Clinical Staff
- Effect of Intrathecal Dexmedetomidine on Spinal Morphine Analgesia in Patients with Refractory Cancer Pain
- Rehospitalization of Older Adults Discharged to Home Hospice Care
- Informal Caregiving of Hospice Patients
- Care of the Post-Laryngectomy Stoma #281
- A Hard Goodbye
- No One Knew
- “Seeing is Believing”: Imaging Modalities Aid in Decision Making in End-of-Life Care
- Tucker
- Tumaini: Reframing Hope at a Place Called Kimbilio
- Metastatic Endometrial Adenocarcinoma to the Larynx: A Case Report and Discussion of Upper Airway Management
- At the End of Life: True Stories About How We Die
- Recent LiteratureFeature Editor: Paul C. Rousseau
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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