Health Medicine Medical Specialties Palliative Care

See also:

• Health: Medicine: Facilities: Hospice  (256)
• Health: Medicine: Medical Specialties: Pain Management  (82)
• Health: Mental Health: Grief, Loss and Bereavement  (222)
• Health: Nursing: Specialties: Palliative Care  (6)
• Society: Issues: End-of-Life  (145)

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• Americans for Better Care for the Dying - Seeks to achieve substantive health care reform through improved policy, professional practice, and care reimbursement.
• Center to Advance Palliative Care - Promotes wider access to palliative care in hospitals and health systems throughout the United States.
• Centre for Bioethics - Journal of Palliative Care - A Canadian-based, peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary forum for practical, critical thought on palliative care and palliative medicine.
• Cochrane Pain, Palliative Care and Supportive Care Group - Information on this research review group, a member of the international Cochrane Collaboration, dedicated to providing systematic reviews of published evidence in the field of palliative care.
• Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care - Consumer and professional health education on the treatment of chronic pain as well as on comfort or palliative care for those with long-term illness. Beth Israel Medical Center, New York.
• Dying Well - The president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Dr. Ira Byock, provides excerpts from his book about resources for patients and families facing life-limiting illness.
• End of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC) - Training material and informational repository for physicians who educate about end of life (EOL) issues.
• End-of-Life Care Eases Pain and Prepares Patient for Death - Article on palliative care.
• THe EPEC Project (Education on Palliative and End-of-life-Care) - Offers continuing medical education conferences, distance learning, educational materials and consulting.
• General Practice Notebook - Palliative care - Coverage of this medical speciality.
• HMS Center for Palliative Care - Programs offered at Harvard Medical School for healthcare professionals. Located in Boston, Mass.
• Innovations in End-of-Life Care - This on-line journal features peer-reviewed examples of promising practices in end-of-life care.
• Living Lessons(TM) - A national initiative to increase awareness of hospice palliative care and services in Canada. The campaign is presented in partnership with the Canadian Palliative Care Association and The Glaxo Wellcome Foundation.
• M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Symptom Control and Palliative Care - A resource for clinical information, education, research and academic training in palliative care.
• Palliative Drugs - Provides independent information for health professionals about drugs usage in this specialty.
• Physicians for Life: Palliative Care Bulletin Board - News and quotes about palliative care.
• Pioneer Programs in Palliative Care: Nine Case Studies - In this report clinicians at nine hospitals describe the establishment of formal programs of palliative care.
• Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care - US organization dedicated to improving healthcare for dying persons and their families through demonstration projects addressing particular challenges to existing models of hospice and palliative care.
• Saint Joseph's Hospital - PalliativeProgram - Information about palliative care and this multidisciplinary team of palliative care providers.
• Sue Ryder Care - UK palliative care charity with seven hospices, which provide pain control, respite care and day care for people with serious and terminal conditions.
• Supportive Care of the Dying: A Coalition for Compassionate Care - Tools, resources, and a quarterly newsletter for health care professionals providing end-of-life care.
• The Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care - A center located at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital answers questions about palliative care.
• Texas Academy of Palliative Medicine - Developed for palliative care physicians in Texas, containing details of meetings and useful online resources.
• VA Faculty Leader Project - The development of a benchmark curricula for end-of-life and palliative care for training resident physicians from the Department of Veterans Affairs.