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Advance care planning / Decision making

Assessment tools

Clinical practice guidelines

Communication

Complementary therapies

Critical care

Culture

Diseases

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Education

Ethics

Evidence databases

Grief and bereavement

Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

Indigenous people

Interdisciplinary practice

International

Long term care

Medication reference guides

Other

Palliative care emergencies

Pediatrics

Professional associations

Prognostication / Care in the final days

Psychosocial care

Research - (link to researcher portal)

Self care

Sexuality

Spirituality

Symptoms

Anorexia / Cachexia

Anxiety

Accessing cannabis for medical purposes from a licensed producer Learn how to access cannabis for your medical purposes from licensed producers under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes...

Anxiety in Palliative Care - Causes and Diagnosis (#186) Online fact sheet outlining potential causes and diagnosis for palliative patients.

Authorizing Dried Cannabis for Chronic Pain or Anxiety: Preliminary Guidance This guidance document was prepared on behalf of the College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) by members of the Addiction...

Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology: Clinical guidelines Canadian Association of Psychosocial Oncology (CAPO) has developed several clinical practice guidelines and standards of...

Centre for Clinical Interventions: Anxiety & Mindfulnes The Centre for Clinical Interventions website provides information sheets on generalized anxiety and mindfulness.

A Pan-Canadian Clinical Practice Guideline: Assessment of Psychosocial Health Care Needs of the Adult Cancer Patient This guideline provides professional health care providers with recommendations regarding the routine, systematic, and standardized...

Reason to Live: Suicide Prevention This website was developed and is supported by the Klinic Community Health Centre, and funded through Manitoba Health. It...

The role of social workers in palliative, end of life and bereavement care This resource aims to ensure that people benefit from good social work at the end of their life, and that those close to...

When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-Of-Life Care for Children and Their Families This report from the Institute of Medicine discusses ways in which health care professionals can provide better care to dying...

Ascites

Bleeding

Bowel obstruction

Congestion

Constipation / diarrhea

Cough

Dehydration

Delirium

Depression

Dyspnea

Fatigue

General

Hypercalcemia

Lymphedema

Mouth care

Myoclonis / Seizures

Nausea / vomiting

Pain

Radiation skin reactions

Spinal cord compression - see Palliative care emergencies

Swallowing

Wounds

4AT Rapid Clinical Test for Delirium This website features the 4AT delirium screening tool including references, case examples, and over 18 language translations...

Accessing cannabis for medical purposes from a licensed producer Learn how to access cannabis for your medical purposes from licensed producers under the Access to Cannabis for Medical Purposes...

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...

Cannabis in Canada About cannabis, process of legalization, health effects, addiction, medical use, applying for industry licenses, consumer...

Hiccoughs - 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...

Hospice and Palliative Medicine Questions This video series, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Questions (HPMQ), answers tough questions you may come across while caring...

Marie Curie: Palliative Care Knowledge Zone This area of the website offers a range of information on palliative, end of life care to support and inform the clinical...

Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know Nursing Care at the End of Life: What Every Clinician Should Know should be an essential component of basic educational preparation...

Parkinson's disease: Diagnosis and management in primary and secondary care The NICE clinical guideline on Parkinson's disease discusses recommendations for the diagnosis of Parkinson's disease, medications...

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...