Pallative Care
Journals
Books
Print Books
Journal of
Palliative Medicine
- 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?
- Dying on Schedule
- Undocumented–Guest Post by Paul Rousseau, M.D., FACP, FAAHPM
- Heart to Heart
- Unexpected Wisdom
- The Experiencing of Music
- Would you be surprised if…?
- Spiritual Influence
- What’s In a Name?
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 Pallative 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
December 2013 video message
November 2013 video message
October 2013 Video Message from NHPCO
Minding our C's and Q: Compassion + Communication = Quality Care
Recent Articles
PubMed
- Incentivizing residents to document inpatient advance care planning.
- Investigators' successful strategies for working with Institutional Review Boards.
- Refractory cachexia and truth-telling about terminal prognosis: a qualitative study.
- A narrative literature review of the contribution of volunteers in end-of-life care services.
Journal of Palliative Medicine
- Respecting Choices® and Advance Directives in a Diverse Community
- All Hospice Patients Are Not Equal: Development of a Visit-Based Acuity Index
- Who Is My Patient? Reflection of a Trainee Trying To Play Doctor
- Do No Harm
- A Case of Recurrent Bleeding Stomal Varix Controlled Using Embolization with a Liquid Copolymer: An Effective Therapy for Palliation
- Transfusion in Palliative Cancer Patients: A Review of the Literature
- Hidden Patients: The Relatives of Patients in Need of Palliative Care
- Recent LiteratureFeature Editor: Paul C. Rousseau
- Siblings Caring for and about Pediatric Palliative Care Patients
- End-of-Life Care: Lifting the Rock
- Symptom Burden, Depression, and Suicidality in Chinese Elderly Patients Suffering from Advanced Cancer
- Lidocaine May Be Effective in Alleviating Physical Symptoms in Cancer Patients
- Does the Type and Frequency of Palliative Care Services Received by Patients with Advanced Heart Failure Impact Symptom Burden?
- Palliative Surgery in the Multidisciplinary Management of Advanced Ovarian Cancer
- An Interdisciplinary Checklist for Left Ventricular Assist Device Deactivation
- Interprofessional Communication Skills Training for Serious Illness: Evaluation of a Small-Group, Simulated Patient Intervention
- I Will Dance in My Aqua Gown! A Personal Reflection
- 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
- The Demise of the Liverpool Care Pathway? A Cautionary Tale for Palliative Care
- Hungry Bone Syndrome: Persistent Hypocalcemia Related to Osteoblastic Bone Metastases of Prostate Cancer
- Ethical Considerations in End-of-Life Deactivation of Durable Mechanical Circulatory Support Devices
- Research Priorities in Geriatric Palliative Care: Policy Initiatives
- New versus Old Neuroleptics: Efficacy versus Marketing
- Acute Hospital Admissions of Hospice Patients
- An Interactive Exercise in Advance Care Planning for Medical Students
- Improving Symptom Management in Hemodialysis Patients: Identifying Barriers and Future Directions
- Stress, Burnout, Compassion Fatigue, and Mental Health in Hospice Workers in Minnesota
- Moving Upstream: A Review of the Evidence of the Impact of Outpatient Palliative Care
- Mixed Methods Research in the Development and Evaluation of Complex Interventions in Palliative and End-of-Life Care: Report on the MORECare Consensus Exercise
- Patient Safety Incidents in Hospice Care: Observations from Interdisciplinary Case Conferences
- Antimicrobial Use for Symptom Management in Patients Receiving Hospice and Palliative Care: A Systematic Review
- Community Pharmacists' Attitudes Toward Palliative Care: An Australian Nationwide Survey
- Few U.S. Public Health Schools Offer Courses on Palliative and End-of-Life Care Policy
- Specialized Pediatric Palliative Home Care: A Prospective Evaluation
- The Use of Family Conferences in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
- The Impact on the Family Carer of Motor Neurone Disease and Intervention with Noninvasive Ventilation
- Characteristics of Subjects Who Died of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease in Andalusia in 2010 and 2011
- A Health Economics Response to the Review of the Liverpool Care Pathway
- Information Needs of Family Carers of People with Diabetes at the End of Life: A Literature Review
- Determinants of the Administration of Continuous Palliative Sedation: A Systematic Review
- Palliative Care: A Poem
- Will Not To Be
- The Breathing Tube Was Never Withdrawn
- Botulinum Toxin Injection and Phenol Nerve Block for Reduction of End-of-Life Pain
- Use of Intravenous Acetaminophen (Paracetamol) in a Pediatric Patient at the End of Life: Case Report
- The Better End: Surviving (and Dying) on Your Own Terms in Today's Modern Medical World
- 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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