Despite advances in medical care, Americans still often suffer from unnecessary pain, discomfort and lack of caring at the end of life. Improved provider education and increased public awareness can lead to better end-of-life care.
Palliative Care
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Taking Steps to Make Palliative Medicine a Subspecialty
October 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
Between 2001 and 2003, the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Silver Spring, Md., implemented an accreditation process for fellowship training programs in palliative medicine.
Young Doctors Learn to Care for Dying Patients
January 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The New York Academy of Medicine integrated palliative care into the core curriculum of New York State's medical schools. The project developed in early 1999 in response to several state initiatives calling for improvement in end-of-life care and palliative care education.
Study Finds More Use, Less Abuse, of Opioids for Pain Relief
June 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
To bring state regulatory policies more in line with medically appropriate prescribing of opioid analgesics for pain management, the Pain & Policy Studies Group conducted surveys and held meetings with health care professionals.
A Textbook Case of Nurses' Deficiency in Pain Management, End-of-Life Care
May 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
The City of Hope National Medical Center led an effort to improve nursing education in pain and end-of-life care.
End Of Life
Topic
End-of-life care Medical care for those with a terminal illness or terminal condition that has become advanced, progressive, and incurable.
Death and Public Health
March 7, 2013 | New Public Health Post
The current issue of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health magazine is devoted to how public health researchers and practitioners probe, investigate, understand and fight death.
Sharing Nursing's Knowledge: What's in the Latest Issue
October 10, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
The monthly Sharing Nursing’s Knowledge e-newsletter will keep you up to date on the latest nursing news, research and trends.
Center to Advance Palliative Care
National Program
Initiative to increase the number of hospitals that have the capability to provide quality palliative care; create sufficient momentum that hospital-based palliative care becomes a standard practice in comprehensive patient care.
Targeted End-of-Life Projects Initiative
September 1, 2003 | Program Result Report
The Targeted End-of-Life Projects Initiative supports solicited and unsolicited projects that advance RWJF's strategic objective to improve care at the end of life.
Death is Certain, Strategy Isn't
January 1, 2010 | Journal Article
RWJF spent two decades working on end-of-life issues in the United States. Through multiple partnerships and collaborations, the field of end-of-life care underwent significant change and improvement.