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Pain & Symptom Management Guideline BC Cancer Agency has produced a guideline that addresses the assessment and management of pain and other common symptoms...

Palliative Care and HIV This website discusses palliative care in the context of HIV and provides some clinical resources

Palliative Care Guidelines - Part 2 (of 3): Pain and Symptom Management This guideline found on BCguidelines. ca, “presents strategies for the assessment and management of cancer pain, and symptoms...

A Pan-Canadian Practice Guideline: Prevention, Screening, Assessment and Treatment of Sleep Disturbances in Adults with Cancer This guideline was developed through a collaborative partnership between the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer and the...

A Pan-Canadian Practice Guideline: Screening, Assessment and Care of Cancer-Related Fatigue in Adults with Cancer Production of this guideline was made possible through a financial contribution from Health Canada, through the Canadian Partnership...

Pediatric Pain and Symptom Management Algorithms for Palliative Care These pain and symptom algorithms were developed in response to the needs identified by many different individuals and agencies.

Pharmacological management of chronic neuropathic pain: revised consensus statement from the Canadian Pain Society Published in Pain & Research Management, Volume 19, Number 6, November/December 2014. Available online free access.

Policy and Procedure for Lower Extremity Lymphedema Management by Subcutaneous Drainage Care has been taken to be thorough in the information presented in this toolkit, however, the information is to be used as...

Prevention and Treatment of Pressure Ulcers: Quick Reference Guide Multiple multi-national pressure ulcer/injury advisory panel groups came together to develop clinical practice guidelines...

Principles of Opioid Management This guideline provides recommendations for the assessment and symptom management of adult patients (age 19 years and older)...

Pruritus - B.C. Inter-professional Palliative Symptom Management Guidelines These best practice guidelines are a result of a collaboration of the following organizations: The BC Centre for Palliative...

Respiratory Congestion - B.C. Inter-professional Palliative Symptom Management Guidelines These best practice guidelines are a result of a collaboration of the following organizations: The BC Centre for Palliative...

Sedation for Palliative Purposes – Evidence Informed Practice Tool This guideline provides recommendations for adult and pediatric clinical practice when Sedation for Palliative Purposes is...

Sedation for Palliative Purposes Guideline – PowerPoint Presentation This is the PowerPoint presentation that outlines details of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority guideline on Sedation...

Severe Bleeding - B.C. Inter-professional Palliative Symptom Management Guidelines These best practice guidelines are a result of a collaboration of the following organizations: The BC Centre for Palliative...

Twitching / Myoclonus / Seizures - B.C. Inter-professional Palliative Symptom Management Guidelines These best practice guidelines are a result of a collaboration of the following organizations: The BC Centre for Palliative...

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Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning