Tools for Practice

This book provides clinical guidance for health care providers on various end-of-life symptoms, grief and bereavement, communication, and predicting prognosis.

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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Facing Death (Frontline documentary)
PBS Broadcast "Facing Death" - Available to view on-line

This documentary takes a closer look at today's complicated end-of-life...

A repository of clinical prognostic indicators to help clinicians keep track of evidence-based tools that can be used when trying to...

Study released August 19, 2010 in the New England Journal of Medicine found that palliative care not only improved quality...

The CANHELP (Canadian Health Care Evaluation Project) questionnaire was originally designed/ used by researchers to measure end-of-life care satisfaction. It is now also...

This 70 minute, voiced-over powerpoint presentation reviews the core elements of quality palliative care and gets to the heart of what patients...

Addresses symptom management, prognostication, and communication with family.

Comprehensive review in powerpoint format.