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Pain, suffering, and spiritual assessment A clinical tool that helps health care providers obtain a spiritual history that can help patients and their caregivers further...

Palliative Care Guidelines - Part 2 (of 3): Pain and Symptom Management This guideline found on BCguidelines. ca, “presents strategies for the assessment and management of cancer pain, and symptoms...

Palliative Care Guidelines - Part 1 (of 3): Approach to Care This guideline found on BCguidelines. ca, “presents palliative care assessment and management strategies for primary care...

Palliative Care Guidelines – Part 3 (of 3): Grief and Bereavement This guideline found on BCguidelines. ca, “addresses the needs of adult patients with incurable cancer or advanced disease...

Palliative Care Tools Links to best-practice tools from around the world to support primary care providers in the delivery of palliative care.

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...

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...

Patient Dignity Inventory The Patient Dignity Inventory is an assessment tool that is easily administered (as either a self report or an instrument...

Perinatal Loss: Mobile App to Assist in Care This article briefly outlines a newly developed free mobile app designed to support the needs of woman who have experienced...

PSSCAN-R Psychological Screening Screening tool developed by BC Cancer Agency to help identify information and support needs of patients and families.