Tools for Practice

The HOPE questions described in this article provide a guide for spirituality assessment.
As published in American Family Physician, 2001...

The Doloplus-2 is used for behavioural pain assessment in cognitively impaired patients.

The Bereavement Risk Assessment Tool, or BRAT, is a psychosocial assessment tool used by care team members to communicate personal,...

The Changes in Health, End-stage disease and Signs and Symptoms (CHESS) scale was designed to identify individuals at risk of serious...

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Providing safe health care in an unpredictable home setting poses unique challenges.  This document discusses considerations and approaches to conversations...

Medical College of Wisconsin - End of Life/Palliative Care Education Resource Centre have created/posted this spiritual history assessment tool.

This tool has been created for healthcare providers to assess for changes in behaviour and personality in patients with dementia...

This article briefly outlines a newly developed free mobile app designed to support the needs of woman who have experienced...

A US Veterans Affairs METRIC(TM) Instrument for pain assessment in the non-verbal patient.
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