Palliative Care
Journals
Books
Print Books
Journal of
Palliative Medicine
- A Different Kind of Palliative Emergency
- Advanced Practice Nurses stuck in the “Middle”
- CONVERSATIONS
- The Color of Love
- And Family Makes Three: Surrogate Decision Makers in the Hospital
- Technically Informed
- Be Amazed!
- The Rehab Back Door
- End of Life on TV: Coming to a Cable Station Near You
- Another Drizzly November Drive
- Informed consent in the ICU: Long-term consequences
- The Deep Questions
- Breath
- Please stop “futile” care
- Has Palliative Care’s Media Moment Arrived?
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)
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
Don Schumacher's April 2014 video message
Will Schwalbe's Acceptance Video
February 2014 Video Message
January 2014 video message
Journal of Palliative Medicine
- Efficacy of Dignity Therapy on Depression and Anxiety in Portuguese Terminally Ill Patients: A Phase II Randomized Controlled Trial
- Assessing Prognostic Documentation and Accuracy Among Palliative Care Clinicians
- Does Decisional Conflict Differ Across Race and Ethnicity Groups? A Study of Parents Whose Children Have A Life-Threatening Illness
- Reflections in the Corridor: Training Doctors To Care at the End of Life
- What Did I Miss? A Qualitative Assessment of the Impact of Patient Suicide on Hospice Clinical Staff
- The Impact of Loneliness on the Relationship between Depression and Pain of Hong Kong Chinese Terminally Ill Patients
- The Dying Art of Percutaneous Cordotomy in Canada
- Death as “Harm” When It Is an Anticipated Outcome in Palliative Care—Or Anywhere
- Rehospitalization of Older Adults Discharged to Home Hospice Care
- Comfort Care Kit: Use of Nonoral and Nonparenteral Rescue Medications at Home for Terminally Ill Patients with Swallowing Difficulty
- Predicting Survival Time in Noncurative Patients with Advanced Cancer: A Prospective Study in China
- Through Those Precious Angelic Eyes
- The Purple Heart
- On Hospice
- A Spoonful of Insight Makes the Medicine Go Down
- Due Diligence for the Legal Decision Maker
- Olanzapine for Intractable Nausea and Vomiting in Palliative Care Patients Not Receiving Chemotherapy
- Effect of Intrathecal Dexmedetomidine on Spinal Morphine Analgesia in Patients with Refractory Cancer Pain
- Predictive Factors for Nausea or Vomiting in Patients with Cancer who Receive Oral Oxycodone for the First Time: Is Prophylactic Medication for Prevention of Opioid-Induced Nausea or Vomiting Necessary?
- Leveraging the Health and Retirement Study to Advance Palliative Care Research
- Do Patients with Advanced Cancer and Unmet Palliative Care Needs Have an Interest in Receiving Palliative Care Services?
- From Whole Brain to Hospice: Patterns of Care in Radiation Oncology
- My First Year as an Oncologist
- End-of-life Care for Children Enrolled in a Community-Based Pediatric Palliative Care Program
- Sadness, Anxiety, and Experiences with Emotional Support among Veteran and Nonveteran Patients and their Families at the End of Life
- What Does State-Level Inpatient Palliative Care Data Tell Us about Service Provision?
- Acceptability of Early Integration of Palliative Care in Patients with Incurable Lung Cancer
- Emotional Distress and Compassionate Responses in Palliative Care Decision-Making Consultations
- Residents' Perceptions about Surrogate Decision Makers' Financial Conflicts of Interest in Ventilator Withdrawal
- Patient Safety Incidents in Home Hospice Care: The Experiences of Hospice Interdisciplinary Team Members
- Referrals to a New Pediatric Palliative Care Team: Details of the First 12 Months of Operation
- Volunteers in Specialist Palliative Care: A Survey of Adult Services in the United Kingdom
- 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
- Integrating Palliative and Cancer Care
- Does the Diagnosis of Conjunctivitis in Palliative Inpatients Have Predictive Value for Imminent Death?
- Use of the Low-Dose Buprenorphine Patch: A Response
- Use of the Low-Dose Buprenorphine Patch: Author Commentary
- Mechanical Ventilation for Very Elderly Patients with Severe Pneumonia
- The WHO Collaborating Centre for Public Health Palliative Care Programs: An Innovative Approach of Palliative Care Development
- Improving the Quality of Cancer Care: Implications for Palliative Care
- Assessment of an Interprofessional Online Curriculum for Palliative Care Communication Training
- Noncancer Hospice Care in Taiwan: A Nationwide Dataset Analysis from 2005 to 2010
- When Open-Ended Questions Don't Work: The Role of Palliative Paternalism in Difficult Medical Decisions
- Facilitating Change and Adaptation: The Experiences of Current and Bereaved Carers of Patients with Severe Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
- Not Quite Seamless: Transitions between Home and Inpatient Hospice
- Race, Income, and Education: Associations with Patient and Family Ratings of End-of-Life Care and Communication Provided by Physicians-in-Training
- How to Estimate Understanding: Professionals' Assessment of Loved Ones' Insight into a Patient's Fatal Disease
- Association between Physician Trainee Self-Assessments in Discussing Religion and Spirituality and Their Patients' Reports
- Helping Patients with Serious Illness Live Well through the Promotion of Adaptive Coping: A Report from the Improving Outpatient Palliative Care (IPAL-OP) Initiative
- Palliative Care Answers the Challenges of Transitioning Serious Illness of Childhood to Adult Medicine
- The Acceptability of Humor between Palliative Care Patients and Health Care Providers
- Comparing Unmet Needs between Community-Based Palliative Care Patients with Heart Failure and Patients with Cancer
- Use of Corticosteroids for Anorexia in Palliative Medicine: A Systematic Review
- Warfarin and Palliative Care #278
- Dying with Dignity: Is This a Universal Concept?
- Outlooks on Palliative Care: A Crosscultural Perspective
- Supermarket Medicine by Proxy
- Stepping Back
- Harmlessness and Narration
- Facing Cancer and the Fear of Death: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Treatment
- 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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