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• Health: Medicine: Facilities: Hospice  (240)
• Health: Medicine: Medical Specialties: Pain Management  (74)
• Health: Mental Health: Grief, Loss and Bereavement  (207)
• Health: Nursing: Specialties: Palliative Care  (6)
• Society: Issues: End-of-Life  (138)

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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.




» 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.




» 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.

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