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Palliative care (from Latin palliare, to cloak) is any form of medical care or treatment that concentrates on reducing the severity of the symptoms of a disease or slows its progress rather than providing a cure. It aims at improving quality of life, by reducing or eliminating pain and other physical symptoms, enabling the patient to ease or resolve psychological and spiritual problems, and supporting the partner and family.
The concept of palliative care
The World Health Organisation (WHO), in a 1990 report on the topic, defined palliative care as "the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment". This definition stresses the terminal nature of the disease. However, the term can also be used more generally to refer to anything that alleviates symptoms, even if there is also hope of a cure by other means; thus, a more recent WHO statement calls palliative care "an approach that improves the quality of life of patients and their families facing the problems associated with life-threatening illness." In some cases, palliative treatments may be used to alleviate the side effects of curative treatments, such as relieving the nausea associated with chemotherapy.
The term is not generally used with regard to a chronic disease such as diabetes which, although currently incurable, has treatments that are (ideally) effective enough that it is not considered a progressive or life-threatening disease in the same sense as cancer or progressive neurological conditions. It is, however, occasionally used with regard to some diseases, such as chronic, progressive pulmonary disorders and end stage renal disease or chronic heart failure.
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Americans for Better Care for the Dying - Seeks to achieve substantive health care reform through improved policy, professional practice, and care reimbursement.
Meta Description: [ ABCD Caring (Americans for Better Care of the Dying) is dedicated to ensuring that all Americans can count on good end of life care. ]
Before I Die - The online component to the PBS program Before I Die: Medical Care and Personal Choices. The program explores the medical, ethical, and social issues surrounding end-of-life care in America today.
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CHOICES. The program explores the medical, ethical, and social issues surrounding end-of-life
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Center to Advance Palliative Care - Promotes wider access to palliative care in hospitals and health systems throughout the United States.
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Centre for Bioethics - Journal of Palliative Care - A Canadian-based, peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary forum for practical, critical thought on palliative care and palliative medicine.
Centre for Palliative Care - A research organization, affiliated with the Duke University and Veterans Affairs Medical Centers in Durham, North Carolina.
Cochrane Pain, Palliative Care and Supportive Care Group - Information on this research review group, a member of the international Cochrane Collaboration, dedicated to providing systematic reviews of published evidence in the field of palliative care.
Dying Well - The president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Dr. Ira Byock, provides excerpts from his book about resources for patients and families facing life-limiting illness.
Meta Description: [ Dying Well, Defining Wellness through the End of Life. Resources for people facing life-limiting illness, their families and professional caregivers. Dr. Ira Byock. ]
End of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC) - Training material and informational repository for physicians who educate about end of life (EOL) issues.
Meta Description: [ EPERC is the medical educator resource for peer-reviewed end of life teaching materials. Also search for recommended books and articles, upcoming conferences, training and funding opportunities. ]
End-of-Life Care Eases Pain and Prepares Patient for Death - Article on palliative care.
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General Practice Notebook - Palliative care - Coverage of this medical speciality.
HELP: Helpful Essential Links to Palliative Care - A program undertaken by the University of Dundee to deal with pain, communication issues, distressing symptoms and care in the context of palliative care.
HMS Center for Palliative Care - Programs offered at Harvard Medical School for healthcare professionals. Located in Boston, Mass.
Meta Description: [ The Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care aims to be a national resource in education and clinical activities in end-of-life care. ]
Innovations in End-of-Life Care - This on-line journal features peer-reviewed examples of promising practices in end-of-life care.
Meta Description: [ Journal promoting innovative practices in palliative care for health care professionals caring for dying patients. Current Issue: Designing Postgraduate Training in Palliative Care. ]
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Jenkin and McLeod - Information about this Australian based team of consultants which design training packages for medical professionals and facilities who require a palliative care model.
Living Lessons(TM) - A national initiative to increase awareness of hospice palliative care and services in Canada. The campaign is presented in partnership with the Canadian Palliative Care Association and The Glaxo Wellcome Foundation.
Meta Description: [ Living Lessons is a national initiative to increase awareness of hospice palliative care and services in Canada. The campaign is presented in partnership with the Canadian Palliative Care Association and The GlaxoSmithKline Foundation. By encouraging and enabling open dialogue, information exchan... ]
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Symptom Control and Palliative Care - A resource for clinical information, education, research and academic training in palliative care.
Pain and Palliative Care Reporter - A public resource of general information on the legal aspects of pain management and end-of-life care in the United States.
Meta Description: [ The Palliative Care Project of the Bazelon Center
for Mental Health Law is an online legal resource for advocates, patients and doctors. ]
Palliative Care - Patient resources, forums, a newsletter and professional resources are offered.
Meta Description: [ Comfort care and palliative medicine for the chronic and terminally ill in hospice, home care, and hospital settings ]
Palliative Drugs - Provides independent information for health professionals about drugs usage in this specialty.
Meta Description: [ Palliativedrugs.com provides comprehensive and independent information for health professionals about drugs usage in palliative care. ]
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Physicians for Life: Palliative Care Bulletin Board - News and quotes about palliative care.
Pioneer Programs in Palliative Care: Nine Case Studies - In this report clinicians at nine hospitals describe the establishment of formal programs of palliative care.
Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care - US organization dedicated to improving healthcare for dying persons and their families through demonstration projects addressing particular challenges to existing models of hospice and palliative care.
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Saint Joseph's Hospital - PalliativeProgram - Information about palliative care and this multidisciplinary team of palliative care providers.
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Stop Pain - Consumer and professional health education on the treatment of chronic pain plus information on palliative care for those with long-term illness.
Meta Description: [ Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, NY ]
Sue Ryder Care - UK palliative care charity with seven hospices, which provide pain control, respite care and day care for people with serious and terminal conditions.
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Supportive Care of the Dying: A Coalition for Compassionate Care - Tools, resources, and a quarterly newsletter for health care professionals providing end-of-life care.
Meta Description: [ 14 Catholic healthcare organizations joined together to promote culture change that will bring supportive care, compassionate relief of suffering, and pain and symptom management to persons with life-threatening illness and their caregivers. ]
SymptomControl.com - Information about treatment for the physical and psychological needs of seriously ill or dying patients.
Texas Academy of Palliative Medicine - Developed for palliative care physicians in Texas, containing details of meetings and useful online resources.
THe EPEC Project (Education on Palliative and End-of-life-Care) - Offers continuing medical education conferences, distance learning, educational materials and consulting.
The Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care - A center located at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital answers questions about palliative care.
VA Faculty Leader Project - The development of a benchmark curricula for end-of-life and palliative care for training resident physicians from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
Meta Description: [ VA Hospice and Palliative Care Initiativee ]
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