October 15, 2009
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Program Result Report
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a program to identify, promote and institutionalize care practices that allow seriously ill people and their families to approach the end of life in physical, psychological, spiritual and emotional comfort.
October 17, 2008
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Program Result Report
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and North General Hospital trained physicians to provide culturally sensitive palliative and hospice care to underserved, minority populations and to provide such care to residents of Harlem and other communities.
October 29, 2004
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Program Result Report
Project staff at Home Front Communications, Washington created and distributed to local television stations a video news feed to raise public awareness about new hospital pain management standards.
July 1, 2000
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Program Result Report
The purpose of this project was to encourage better terminal and palliative care for the growing number of Medicare, Medicaid and commercial beneficiaries being served by managed care organizations.
January 1, 1998
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Program Result Report
Researchers at Harvard University School of Public Health, Boston, conducted a survey to explore to what extent the results of the SUPPORT project could be generalized.
December 1, 1998
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Program Result Report
In 1997, the Colorado Collaboration on End-of-Life Care (CCELC), a consortium of public and private groups, sponsored a conference with the goal of developing a replicable model of hospice/palliative care that can be used by an integrated delivery system to optimize appropriate interdisciplinary and holistic End-of-Life care.
January 1, 2003
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Program Result Report
In 1999, investigators at Brown University Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research prepared a monograph describing the prevalence of pain and the variation in its treatment among nursing home residents in 11 states. Using 1996 data, Vincent Mor, Ph.D., and Joan M. Teno, M.D., M.S., and a team of investigators evaluated three groups of nursing home residents:
May 15, 2008
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Program Result Report
A large portion of the Safe Conduct team's efforts takes the form of gentle and persistent probing for problems that patients choose to keep to themselves.
May 15, 2008
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Program Result Report
The West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center operated Pathways of Caring to help dying veterans receiving health care services at the medical center.
May 15, 2008
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Program Result Report
The University of Washington School of Medicine in Seattle created an intervention designed to improve the quality of end-of-life care in the intensive care unit (ICU).
