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A Story of Implementing Palliative Care in an Inner-City Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit

May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report

The Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at University Hospital in Newark is the sort of place people land without warning: a gunshot wound late at night; a car accident on the way home from the movies.

Developing a Research and Education Agenda to Improve End-of-Life Care in Intensive Care Units

May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report

With $107,906 from the Special Opportunities Fund of from RWJF's Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care national program, researchers from the University of Washington organized and convened a workshop.

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.

Introducing Interdisciplinary Palliative Care Services in Seven Intensive Care Units

May 15, 2008 | Program Result Report

The University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle created an intervention designed to improve the quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit (ICU).

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