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Advance care planning / Decision making

Assessment tools

Clinical practice guidelines

Communication

Complementary therapies

Critical care

Culture

Diseases

Dying at home

Education

Ethics

Evidence databases

Grief and bereavement

Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

Indigenous people

Interdisciplinary practice

International

Long term care

Medication reference guides

Other

Palliative care emergencies

Pediatrics

Professional associations

Prognostication / Care in the final days

Guideline for Estimating Prognosis A valuable resource for health care professionals about estimating prognosis in palliative care patients.

Palliation of End-stage Heart Disease: Three Things You Need to Know Evidenced-based powerpoint presentation addressing symptom management, prognostication/goals of care, and palliative care...

The Palliation of Stroke Addresses symptom management, prognostication, and communication with family.

Palliative Performance Scale (version 2) PPSv2 The Victoria Hospice Palliative Performance Scale version 2 (PPSv2) is an 11-point scale designed to measure a patient's...

Palliative Performance Scale and Care Conference The Palliative Performance Scale (PPS) serves as a way for the interprofessional team to communicate with each other or with...

Symptom Management in Comfort End-of-Life Care of Pneumonia An approach to managing terminal pneumonia, a common end-of-life complication in many progressive chronic conditions, including...

Teaching end-of-life care in the home Article available with free access online.

Ten Steps to Better Prognostication This table is copyright but is provided free to be used in any format without permission. Please acknowledge source: Dr.

Winnipeg Regional Health Authority Guidelines for Discharge Planning for First Nations Patients Returning to Home Community for Palliative Care The Palliative Care Program of the Winnipeg Regional Health Authority has developed " Guidelines for Discharge Planning...