Accuracy of the Pain Numeric Rating Scale as a Screening Test in Primary Care
January 1, 2007 | Journal Article
Authors conclude that the ability of the rating scale to capture patients' pain-related suffering is only modest.
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Addressing State Policy Issues in End of Life Care
April 3, 2006 | Story
A policy series that reaches 25,000 end-of-life coalition leaders, policymakers and healthcare professionals. The publication advances balanced approaches to pain management policy, consumer protection and professional development.
A Partnership of Two NYC Hospitals Trained Providers to Offer End-of-Life Care for Minority Populations in Harlem
October 17, 2008 | Program Result
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.
A Story from a Palliative Care Program for People Dying in Nursing Homes
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
If anything defines the transformation created by the palliative care initiative at the Pines it is the shift in the way staff members view their role in caring for patients, and the results of their greater involvement.
A Story from Pathways of Caring: Model Program to Provide Comprehensive Palliative Care to Veterans
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
The West Los Angeles Veterans Affairs Medical Center is the largest in the Veterans Affairs (VA) system, and an easy place to get lost in - literally, and medically.
A Story from Project Safe Conduct
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
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.
A Story from the Pediatric Palliative Care Project
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
If all that mattered to dying children and their families was an all-expenses-paid trip to the Grand Canyon or the World Series, it would be easy enough to ease the pain of young lives prematurely foreclosed.
A Story of Implementing Palliative Care in an Inner-City Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit
May 15, 2008 | Program Result
The Trauma/Surgical Intensive Care Unit (SICU) at University Hospital in Newark is the sort of place people land without warning: a gunshot wound late at night; a car accident on the way home from the movies.
A Textbook Case of Nurses' Deficiency in Pain Management, End-of-Life Care
May 1, 2002 | Program Result
The City of Hope National Medical Center led an effort to improve nursing education in pain and end-of-life care.
Bringing the Table to the Community
December 7, 2011 | Story
The San Francisco partnership created the first-ever plan to improve community-based aging services. A coordinating council reporting to the mayor guided implementation, including bringing aging services into public housing and influencing policy.