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Advance care planning / Decision making

Assessment tools

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Communication

Complementary therapies

Critical care

Culture

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Education

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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

Ascites

Bleeding

Bowel obstruction

Congestion

Constipation / diarrhea

Cough

Dehydration

Dehydration - 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...

Nutrition and Hydration in Hospice Care: Needs, Strategies, Ethics (The Hospice Journal , Vol 9) A comprehensive clinical reference book on nutritional care of the terminally ill for dieticians, nutritionists, and other...

Tube Feed or Not To Tube Feed? This evidenced-based fast fact sheet written by Dr J. Hallenbeck and Dr D. Weissman provides a brief outline of what is known...

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

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...

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...