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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Center to Advance Palliative Care Clinical Care and Customer Satisfaction Metrics Consensus Recommendations
February 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In 2008 the Center to Advance Palliative Care formed a consensus panel to evaluate measurement tools and standards of care. The panel recommended numerous data collection tools that assess the quality of palliative care services and customer satisfaction.
Palliative Care in Long-Term Care
February 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Academic and medical professionals discuss the transition from palliative care in hospitals to nursing homes.
Palliative Care in the Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure
December 22, 2009 | Journal Article
This review of literature is a primer in palliative care for end-stage heart disease, a condition with severe physical and emotional symptoms. The authors discuss appropriate strategies for discontinuing medical solutions evidence suggests palliative care prolongs life and cuts costs.
The Development, Status, and Future of Palliative Care
March 1, 2010 | Book
From Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness, this essay examines the emergence of palliative care and why care of the seriously ill is an important issue within the health and health care arena.
Palliative Care
March 1, 2010 | Book
Palliative Care:Transforming the Care of Serious Illness is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is changing the way Americans deal with serious illness.
Exploratory Study Looks at Hospital Data on Costs and Financing of Palliative Care Programs
March 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
From 2000 to 2002, Laguna Research Associates, San Francisco, conducted a feasibility study to determine whether hospitals had sufficient data on their palliative care programs to warrant a full study of the costs and financing of hospital-based palliative care.
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.
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.
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.
Executive Nurse Fellow Alum Joins Revolution in Care for Dying Children
November 23, 2009 | Story
Jody Chrastek, M.S.N., R.N., C.H.P.N., co-created the first federally funded pilot program to educate nurses and other health providers about pediatric palliative care. The program is now a model for a nationwide project.