Palliative Care
Journals
Books
Print Books
- Being Mortal: medicine and what matters in the end
- 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
- Palliative aspects of emergency care
- Palliative Care Perspectives
- Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine
- Research Methods in Palliative Care
Websites
Definitions
Advance Care Planning
- National Institute on Aging
- POLST
- MOLST (NY)
- MOLST (MA)
- MOLST (MD)
- Advance Directives NCI)
- Doctor, How Long Have I Got? (InteliHealth)
- Communication with Your Family and Your Doctor about Your Wishes (ACEP)
- Conversations Before the Crisis (NHPCO)
- 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
- National Palliative Care Research Center
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
Caroline’s Moment…
We Honor Veterans Coverage
CTC 2014 Video
Carmin's Love, Light, and Circle of Song
PubMed
Journal of Palliative Medicine
- Palliative Care: A Specialty Focused on the Relief of Suffering of Individuals, Families, Communities, and Populations
- Palliative Care in Cancer: Enhancing Our View with the Science of Emotion and Decision Making
- The Population Burden of Chronic Symptoms that Substantially Predate the Diagnosis of a Life-Limiting Illness
- The Role of Palliative Care in Population Management and Accountable Care Organizations
- Being Discharged from Hospice Alive: The Lived Experience of Patients and Families
- Advance Directives for Older Adults in the Emergency Department: A Systematic Review
- Use of a Modified Liverpool Care Pathway in a Tertiary Asian Hospital: Is There Still a Role for It?
- Does Interdisciplinary and Multiprofessional Undergraduate Education Increase Students' Self-Confidence and Knowledge Toward Palliative Care? Evaluation of an Undergraduate Curriculum Design for Palliative Care at a German Academic Hospital
- Predictors of Physical Restraint Use in Hospitalized Veterans at End of Life: An Analysis of Data from the BEACON Trial
- End-of-Life Care in Nursing Homes with Greater versus Less Palliative Care Knowledge and Practice
- Dying for Advice: Code Status Discussions between Resident Physicians and Patients with Advanced Cancer—A National Survey
- Symptom Burden and Performance Status among Community-Dwelling Patients with Serious Illness
- Update in Hospice and Palliative Care
- Hypoglycemia Management in Nondiabetic Adults at the End of Life #291
- A Long Way from Morphine in Rural Cameroon
- The Journey of A Million Losses
- Wise Shoes to Fill: A Fellow's Reflection
- Hearing Loss in Palliative Care
- Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End
- “Have a Good Weekend”
- Life, Death and … Rice and Beans
- A Day in the Death of a Hospice Patient
- ICD-10: What the Palliative Care Provider Needs to Know
- Chemotherapy at the End of Life: Factors of Prescription
- Use of Very-Low-Dose Methadone and Haloperidol for Pain Control in Palliative Care Patients: Are the Sigma-1 Receptors Involved?
- Communication and Quality of Care on Palliative Care Units: A Qualitative Study
- Evaluating the Need for Palliative Care Services at a General Hospital in Israel
- Patient-Nurse Communication about Prognosis and End-of-Life Care
- Development and Validation of a Set of Palliative Medicine Entrustable Professional Activities: Findings from a Mixed Methods Study
- Fostering a Quality of Care Culture in Community-Based Palliative Care: What Will It Take?
- Do Palliative Care Clinics Screen for Substance Abuse and Diversion? Results of a National Survey
- Venting Gastrostomy at Home for Symptomatic Management of Bowel Obstruction in Advanced/Recurrent Ovarian Malignancy: A Case Series
- Medical Purgatory
- Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders in an Operating Room Setting #292
- The Gift of Connection: A Personal Reflection on My Work with Cancer Patients
- Recollections of His Death
- Corticosteroid Injections for Knee Pain at the End of Life
- Hiccups during Chemotherapy: What Should We Do?
- Facility-related Factors Influencing the Place of Death and Home Care Rates for End-stage Cancer Patients
- Radiation-Refractory Brain Metastases in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
- Fixed-Dose Subcutaneous Methylnaltrexone in Patients with Advanced Illness and Opioid-Induced Constipation: Results of a Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Study and Open-Label Extension
- Estimating Geriatric Mortality after Injury Using Age, Injury Severity, and Performance of a Transfusion: The Geriatric Trauma Outcome Score
- ACR Appropriateness Criteria® Metastatic Epidural Spinal Cord Compression and Recurrent Spinal Metastasis
- Methadone for Patients with Malignant Psoas Syndrome: Case Series of Three Patients
- Quality Measures for Community-Based, Rural Palliative Care Programs in Minnesota: A Pilot Study
- Methylnaltrexone for Opioid-Induced Constipation in Children and Adolescents and Young Adults with Progressive Incurable Cancer at the End of Life
- Patient Preferences versus Family Physicians' Perceptions Regarding the Place of End-of-Life Care and Death: A Nationwide Study in Taiwan
- Place of Death among Hospitalized Patients with Cancer at the End of Life
- A Pilot Study To Define Chemical Coping in Cancer Patients Using the Delphi Method
- Is Care for the Dying Improving in the United States?
- Prevalence of Renal Impairment in Palliative Care Inpatients—A Retrospective Analysis
- Evaluating Stakeholder-Identified Barriers in Accessing Palliative Care at an NCI-Designated Cancer Center with a Rural Catchment Area
- Hospice Enrollment, Local Hospice Utilization Patterns, and Rehospitalization in Medicare Patients
- Constipation in Specialized Palliative Care: Prevalence, Definition, and Patient-Perceived Symptom Distress
- Drug-Induced Acute Urinary Retention #287
- Why Interdisciplinary Teams Ten Years Later?
- From Goals of Care to Improved Family Outcomes in the NICU: Determining the Intervention
- Comparing Symptom Burden in Patients with Metastatic and Nonmetastatic Cancer
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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