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Project Collects and Assesses Data on What Works Best When Managing Hospice Patients' Pain, Shortness of Breath and Autonomy

January 1, 2005 | Program Result Report

From 1998 to 2003, staff at the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, Alexandria, Va., conducted a national hospice outcomes project to assess the impact of various treatment strategies on the quality of hospice care.

Publicity Provided for National Broadcast of "To Live Until I Die" Documentary

August 1, 2004 | Program Result Report

In April 1999, Window to The World Communications, the parent organization for WTTW Channel 11 in Chicago, aired a one-hour documentary, To Live Until I Die, which addresses end-of-life care in America.

In Hospitals or Hospices, Pain is the Dying Patient's Frequent Companion

January 1, 1998 | Program Result Report

Researchers at Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, conducted a survey to explore to what extent the results of the SUPPORT project could be generalized.

The Cost of Dying

November 22, 2009 | Story

CBS' 60 Minutes reports that many Americans spend their last days in an intensive care unit, subjected to uncomfortable machines or surgeries to prolong their lives at enormous cost.

How Fast and What Type of Imaging Elderly Low-Back Pain Patients Get Linked to Patient/Physician Traits Not Clinical Indications

May 25, 2009 | News Release

Archives study underscores need for quality metrics to measure overuse of care.

Resource Guide for Reporters Covers Issues of Death and Dying

August 1, 2000 | Program Result Report

In 1997, the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation in Washington produced and disseminated a journalists' resource guide on end-of-life issues.

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