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Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

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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...

Antiemetic Guidelines The MASCC/ESMO Antiemetic Guidelines have been updated in English as of April, 2010, and will soon be available in 10 languages.

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...

The Champlain Region Palliative Sedation Therapy Clinical Practice and Medication Guidelines (2018) The guidelines were developed to ensure safe, effective, and appropriate use of palliative sedation therapy and to enhance...

Nausea & Vomiting in Children This webinar from the Pediatric Palliative Care Service IWK Health Centre discusses the assessment and management of nausea...

Nausea and Vomiting The guideline provides strategies for the assessment and management of adults (age 19 years and older) living with advanced...

Nausea and Vomiting - 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...

Nausea and Vomiting: Patient Information Sheet This is a patient information sheet developed by Cancer Care Ontario discussing nausea, vomiting and its treatment

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

Refractory Symptoms and Palliative Sedation Therapy Guideline This guideline provides recommendations for the ongoing assessment and symptom management of adult patients (age 19 years...

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...

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