Despite advances in medical care, Americans still often suffer from unnecessary pain, discomfort and lack of caring at the end of life. Improved provider education and increased public awareness can lead to better end-of-life care.
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Center to Advance Palliative Care Clinical Care and Customer Satisfaction Metrics Consensus Recommendations
February 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In 2008 the Center to Advance Palliative Care formed a consensus panel to evaluate measurement tools and standards of care. The panel recommended numerous data collection tools that assess the quality of palliative care services and customer satisfaction.
Palliative Care in Long-Term Care
February 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Academic and medical professionals discuss the transition from palliative care in hospitals to nursing homes.
Palliative Care in the Treatment of Advanced Heart Failure
December 22, 2009 | Journal Article
This review of literature is a primer in palliative care for end-stage heart disease, a condition with severe physical and emotional symptoms. The authors discuss appropriate strategies for discontinuing medical solutions evidence suggests palliative care prolongs life and cuts costs.
The Development, Status, and Future of Palliative Care
March 1, 2010 | Book
From Palliative Care: Transforming the Care of Serious Illness, this essay examines the emergence of palliative care and why care of the seriously ill is an important issue within the health and health care arena.
Palliative Care
March 1, 2010 | Book
Palliative Care:Transforming the Care of Serious Illness is the first book to provide a comprehensive understanding of the new field that is changing the way Americans deal with serious illness.
Exploratory Study Looks at Hospital Data on Costs and Financing of Palliative Care Programs
March 1, 2004 | Program Result Report
From 2000 to 2002, Laguna Research Associates, San Francisco, conducted a feasibility study to determine whether hospitals had sufficient data on their palliative care programs to warrant a full study of the costs and financing of hospital-based palliative care.
Center to Advance Palliative Care
National Program
Initiative to increase the number of hospitals that have the capability to provide quality palliative care; create sufficient momentum that hospital-based palliative care becomes a standard practice in comprehensive patient care.
Cost Savings Associated with US Hospital Palliative Care Consultation Programs
September 8, 2008 | Journal Article
By instituting palliative care consultation programs, hospitals can save thousands of dollars per relevant admission, according to a study of over 50,000 cases.
Setting Standards for Assessing and Treating Pain
August 22, 2008 | Program Result Report
The University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health worked with the Joint Commission on the development of accreditation standards for the assessment and treatment of pain.
Unexpected Returns
January 1, 1997 | Book
The findings and lessons from a large, multiyear research and demonstration project that investigated the care provided to critically ill hospitalized patients at the end of life are presented in this chapter of the RWJF Anthology.