Palliative Care
Journals
E-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: a patient-centered approach
- Palliative Care Perspectives
- Research Methods in Palliative Care
- When Breath Becomes Air
Websites
Definitions
Advance Care Planning
- Advance Directives NCI)
- Communication with Your Family and Your Doctor about Your Wishes (ACEP)
- Conversations Before the Crisis (NHPCO)
- Conversations for Life Programme
- End of Life Choices - CPR and DNR (FCA)
- If You or Someone You Love is Very Ill... Ask Tough Questions (NHPCO)
- MOLST (MA)
- MOLST (MD)
- MOLST (NY)
- National Institute on Aging
- POLST
- Stanford Letter Project
- Take Charge!
- Talking about End-of-life Treatment Decisions (AHRQ)
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
Improving Care for Veterans Facing Illness and Death
FEBS Tutorial
We Honor Veterans Partner Networking Call
NHPCO's Interdisciplinary Conference
PubMed
Journal of Palliative Medicine
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- Global Palliative Medicine
- Delirium: Use Antipsychotics When Appropriate and Appropriately
- Can “An Extra Layer of Support” Sign Off?
- Supporting Best Practice for Attending a Child's Funeral as Part of Our Professional Role: Guidelines for Developing Service Policy
- Lack of Palliative Mortality Prediction Tools for People with a Hematological Malignancy: Call for Action
- The Cambia Sojourns Scholars Leadership Program: Conversations with Emerging Leaders in Palliative Care
- Research Priorities in Subspecialty Palliative Care: Policy Initiatives
- Prediction of Poor Short-Term Prognosis and Unmet Needs in Advanced Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease: Use of the Two-Minute Walking Distance Extracted from a Six-Minute Walk Test
- The Development of Palliative Care in Argentina: A Mapping Study Using Latin American Association for Palliative Care Indicators
- Trends of Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders, Hospice Care Utilization, and Late Referral to Hospice Care among Cancer Decedents in a Tertiary Hospital in Taiwan between 2008 and 2014: A Hospital-Based Observational Study
- Single-Center Experience Providing Palliative Care to Pediatric Patients with End-Stage Renal Disease
- Screening and Assessment of Substance Use in Hospice Care: Examining Content from a National Sample of Psychosocial Assessments
- Qualitative Research in Palliative Care: Applications to Clinical Trials Work
- The Palliative Care Quality Network: Improving the Quality of Caring
- The Suffering Pictogram: Measuring Suffering in Palliative Care
- “She Would Be Flailing Around Distressed”: The Critical Role of Home-Based Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Cancer
- Low-Dose Morphine for Dyspnea in Terminally Ill Patients with Idiopathic Interstitial Pneumonias
- Factors Associated with Length of Stay at Home in the Final Month of Life among Advanced Cancer Patients: A Retrospective Chart Review
- Gender Differences in Sexual Interest or Activity among Adults with Symptomatic Heart Failure
- Transplant Medication Management for Patients Nearing End of Life #333
- The Role of Clinical Pharmacists on the Interdisciplinary Team #334
- Shell
- A Palliative Homage to Dylan Thomas: Go Gentle into That Good Night
- Lullaby of a Palliative Care Doctor
- If Only We Could See…
- Lasting Words: A Guide to Finding Meaning Toward the Close of Life
- Palliative Care Consults in U.S. Nursing Homes: Not Just for the Dying
- Association between Hospice Spending on Patient Care and Rates of Hospitalization and Medicare Expenditures of Hospice Enrollees
- Developing the Storyline for an Advance Care Planning Video for Surgery Patients: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Engagement from Stakeholder Summit to State Fair
- Trajectory of Dyspnea and Respiratory Distress among Patients in the Last Month of Life
- Models of Palliative Care Team Composition: Nurse Practioner-Only versus Interdisciplinary Teams that Include Specialist Physicians
- The Impact on Resource Utilization of Supportive Care Consults on Patients at the University of North Carolina Hospital, 2010–2012
- Standardization and Scaling of a Community-Based Palliative Care Model
- “The Role of Role Play for a Medical Student”: Pre- and Postclerkship Experiences in Palliative Care Education
- Experiences with Cutting Matrix Fentanyl Patches as a Method of Dose Titration in Cancer Patients
- The Underworld
- Advancing Advance Care Planning
- Single-Fraction Radiation Treatment for Uncomplicated Bone Metastases #335
- Inspiring Confidence as a Young Therapist and the Danger of Being Too Transparent
- A Review of Palliative and Hospice Care in the Context of Islam: Dying with Faith and Family
- Access to Palliative Care Consultation and Advance Care Planning for Adults with High-Risk Leukemia
- Improved Pain Control in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients by Introducing Low-Dose Oral Methadone in Addition to Ongoing Opioid Treatment
- Validation of the Supportive and Palliative Care Indicators Tool in a Geriatric Population
- An Update: NIH Research Funding For Palliative Medicine 2011–2015
- Using Group Visits To Teach Residents About Advance Care Planning
- Braces
- Fosaprepitant for the Management of Refractory Pain in a Patient with Cancer-Related Dermatomyositis
- The Role of Pediatric Palliative Care in Complex Congenital Heart Disease: Three Illustrative Cases
- My Kite Will Fly: Improving Communication and Understanding in Young Children When a Mother Is Diagnosed with Life-Threatening Gynecological Cancer
- Advance Directives among Nursing Home Residents with Mild, Moderate, and Advanced Dementia
- Prospective Identification of Patients at Risk for Unwarranted Variation in Treatment
- A Pilot Trial of Early Specialty Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Pancreatic Cancer: Challenges Encountered and Lessons Learned
- Selective Percutaneous Controlled Radiofrequency Thermocoagulation of the Gasserian Ganglion to Control Facial Pain Due to Medication-Related Osteonecrosis of the Jaw
- Pharmacovigilance in Hospice/Palliative Care: Net Effect of Haloperidol for Nausea or Vomiting
- Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation and 30-Day Readmissions in Oncology
- Pilot Study of a Palliative Care and Medical Oncology Co-Rounding Model for Advanced Cancer Inpatients in a Tertiary Hospital in Singapore
- Providing Pediatric Palliative Care Education Using Problem-Based Learning
- Palliative Medicine: A Medical Student's Perspective
- The Right to Live with Dignity and the Right to Die with Dignity
- Wanted and Unwanted Care: The Double-Edged Sword of Partial Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders
- Accepting and Growing from “Bad Therapy” as a Young Clinician
- Insomnia and Autonomic Function Predict Well-Being in Patients Receiving Palliative Care
- Integrating Palliative and Oncology Care for Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Quality Improvement Intervention
- Trust in Physicians, Continuity and Coordination of Care, and Quality of Death in Patients with Advanced Cancer
- Surrogate Decision Making When Patients Cannot Decide within the Veterans Health Administration System
- Alternative Facts
- Response to the Article “Overall Survival among Cancer Patients Undergoing Opioid Rotation to Methadone Compared to Other Opioids”
- Across the Continuum: How Inpatient Palliative Care Consultations Are Reported in Hospital Discharge Summaries
- You Want It Darker
- Rapid Radiation Therapy for Advanced Cancer of the Head and Neck #336
- Pressure and Time: A Recipe for Legislative Change
- The Efficacy of Dignity Therapy on the Psychological Well-Being in Loved Ones of Terminally Ill Patients
- Tracking Patients in Community Based Palliative Care through the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Healthcare Innovation Project
- Palliative Tracheostomy at the End of Life: Utilization in a Patient with Metastatic Cancer
- How Often Is End-of-Life Care in the United States Inconsistent with Patients' Goals of Care?
- Urinary Incontinence and Quality of Death in the Intensive Care Unit
- Goals of Care Ambulatory Resident Education: Training Residents in Advance Care Planning Conversations in the Outpatient Setting
- Publications on Palliative Care Development Can Be Used as an Indicator of Palliative Care Development in Africa
- From Olancho to Bedside
- Hospital Chaplains: Through the Eyes of Parents of Hospitalized Children
- When Our Worlds Collide
- Understanding Factors Contributing to Inappropriate Critical Care: A Mixed-Methods Analysis of Medical Record Documentation
- Characteristics of Hospitalized Cancer Patients Referred for Inpatient Palliative Care Consultation
- An Examination of Factors Affecting the Length of Stay in a Palliative Care Center
- Hospice Visit Patterns in the Last Seven Days of Life and the Service Intensity Add-On Payment
- Treatment and Communication–That Is What Matters: An Analysis of Complaints Regarding End-of-Life Care
- Methadone Dose Selection for Treatment of Pain Compared with Consensus Recommendations
- Very-Low-Dose Methadone To Treat Refractory Neuropathic Pain in Children with Cancer
- Characteristics of Participants Enrolled onto a Randomized Controlled Trial of Palliative Care for Patients on Phase I Studies
- A Missed Opportunity?
- The Prospective Evaluation of the Net Effect of Red Blood Cell Transfusions in Routine Provision of Palliative Care
- Integration of a Palliative Care Intervention into Community Practice for Lung Cancer: A Study Protocol and Lessons Learned with Implementation
- The Validity of Using Health Administrative Data To Identify the Involvement of Specialized Pediatric Palliative Care Teams in Children with Cancer in Ontario, Canada
- Clinical Outcomes of Start-Low, Go-Slow Methadone Initiation for Cancer-Related Pain: What's the Hurry?
- Pediatric Palliative Care: A Five-Year Retrospective Chart Review Study
- “PAL-LIFE Project: International Advisory Working Group on Diffusion and Development of Palliative Care in the World” — First Meeting Report
- Prevalence and Clinical Intentions of Antithrombotic Therapy on Discharge to Hospice Care
- Familiar Stranger
- Preferred Place of Care and Death in Terminally Ill Patients with Lung and Heart Disease Compared to Cancer Patients
- Re: Drug–Drug Interactions between Methadone and Apixaban
- What Do I Do Now?
- Effect of Opioids and Benzodiazepines on Clinical Outcomes in Patients Receiving Palliative Care: An Exploratory Analysis
- Delivery of Community-Based Palliative Care: Findings from a Time and Motion Study
- Clinician-Targeted Mobile Apps in Palliative Care: A Systematic Review
- Why Are Patients Difficult for Staff?
- A Library of Instruments Endorsed by Published Systematic Reviews for Assessing Patients and Their Care Developed by the Palliative Care Research Cooperative
- Symptom Prevalence and the Negative Emotional States in End-Stage Renal Disease Patients with or without Renal Replacement Therapy: A Cross-Sectional Analysis
- A New Generation of Comfort Care Order Sets: Aligning Protocols with Current Principles
- A Single Center Survey of Health-Related Quality of Life among Acute Myeloid Leukemia Survivors in First Complete Remission
- Palliative Care Office Hours for Patients with Hematologic Malignancies: an Innovative Model for Symptom Management and Education
- Palliative Care for Advanced Heart Failure in a Department of Veterans Affairs Regional Hospice Program: Patient Selection, a Treatment Protocol, and Clinical Course
- Palliative Care and Parkinson's Disease: Caregiver Perspectives
- Perceptions of Statin Discontinuation among Patients with Life-Limiting Illness
- Tracey
- Hope and Uncertainty in the Age of Miracles
- The Palliative Care Challenge: Analysis of Barriers and Opportunities to Integrate Palliative Care in Europe in the View of National Associations
- Redefined Boundaries: When Palliative Care Hits Home
- A Remote View
- How to Pronounce
- Palliative Care Interventions before Left Ventricular Assist Device Implantation in Both Bridge to Transplant and Destination Therapy
- Preventing Burdensome Transitions of Nursing Home Residents with Advanced Dementia: It's More than Advance Directives
- Methadone-Induced Neurotoxicity in Advanced Cancer: A Case Report
- A Survey of Hospice and Palliative Care Clinician's Experiences and Attitudes Regarding the Use of Palliative Sedation
- Supportive Cardiology: Moving Palliative Care Upstream for Patients Living with Advanced Heart Failure
- A Randomized Controlled Trial Comparing the Letter Project Advance Directive to Traditional Advance Directive
- Implementing an Advance Care Planning Intervention in Community Settings with Older Latinos: A Feasibility Study
- Bereavement Service Preferences of Surviving Family Members: Variation among Next of Kin with Depression and Complicated Grief
- Trends in Hospital Utilization and Costs among Pediatric Palliative Care Recipients
- Development of a French Version of the Edmonton Symptom Assessment System-Revised: A Pilot Study of Palliative Care Patients' Perspectives
- Training Pediatric Fellows in Palliative Care: A Pilot Comparison of Simulation Training and Didactic Education
- Who Will Speak for Me? Disparities in Palliative Care Research with “Unbefriended” Adolescents Living with HIV/AIDS
- Factors Associated with the Efficacy of Trigger Point Injection in Advanced Cancer Patients
- Development and Feasibility of a Structured Goals of Care Communication Guide
- When Is Enough?
- Seeking and Accepting: U.S. Clergy Theological and Moral Perspectives Informing Decision Making at the End of Life
- In the Chaplain's Shadow
- Maryland's Medical Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment Form Use: Reports of a Statewide Survey
- Confidence with and Barriers to Serious Illness Communication: A National Survey of Hospitalists
- Initial Experience with “Honoring Choices Wisconsin”: Implementation of an Advance Care Planning Pilot in a Tertiary Care Setting
- When One Knows a Fetus Is Expected to Die: Palliative Care in the Context of Prenatal Diagnosis of Fetal Malformations
- Characterization of Spirituality in Maternal–Child Caregivers
- 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)
- On a mission to transform end-of-life care (SCOPE)
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