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Palliative Care Health Services Delivery Framework - Frequently Asked Questions This Frequently Asked Questions document accompanies the Palliative Care Health Services Delivery Framework produced by the...

Palliative Care Health Services Delivery Framework: Recommendations for a Model of Care to Improve Palliative Care in Ontario - Focus Area 1: Adults Receiving Care in Community Settings The Ontario Palliative Care Network has developed a model of care to improve palliative care services. It applies to services...

Palliative care in neurological disease : A team approach. This unique and comprehensive book builds bridges between palliative and neurological care expertise for professionals who...

Palliative Care Nursing, 2nd ed. The book is divided into four sections - Encountering illness, Transitions into the terminal phase, Loss and bereavement,...

Palliative Care: Care vs. Cure? Free on-line access to video and transcript of an in-depth segment about palliative care. Host Richard D. Heffner interviewed...

Palliative Care: Core Skills and Clinical Competencies (2nd Ed.) This textbook provides health care professionals with the core knowledge and skills necessary to provide comprehensive and...

Palliative Care: The Nursing Role This book lays a clear foundation of knowledge for any nurse involved with palliative care. It focuses on the needs and perspectives...

Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness This book begins with a comprehensive review of the field, written by Dr. Diane Meier, and includes twenty-five of the most...

Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness (lecture) Leffert Lecture, December 2014, Massachusetts General Hospital, presented by Dr Diane Meir, Department of Geriatrics and...

Palliative Medicine: Expert Consult (available online and print) This new reference equips you with all of today's best international approaches for meeting complex and multifaceted challenges.

Government / group reports

Program development / Standards and norms

Staffing Model for Palliative Care Programs The Canadian Society of Palliative Care Physicians is proud to announce publication of a paper developed by the CSPCP’s Staffing...

Stay, Breathe with Me: The Gift of Compassionate Medicine This book presents serious illness as a drama of body, mind, and soul. In this drama symptoms and suffering cannot be separated...

Tools to Support Earlier Identification for Palliative Care - Ontario Palliative Care Network The aim of this document is to support providers and system level leadership in earlier identification of patients who would...

The Way Forward National Framework This document is the first step in developing a national framework: a roadmap for implementing an integrated palliative approach...

When Breath Becomes Air This inspiring, exquisitely observed memoir finds hope and beauty in the face of insurmountable odds as an idealistic young...

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Guidelines for Discharge Planning for First Nations Patients Returning to Home Community for Palliative Care The Palliative Care Program of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has developed " Guidelines for Discharge Planning...

Indigenous people

Interdisciplinary practice

International

Long term care

Medication reference guides

Other

Palliative care emergencies

Pediatrics

Professional associations