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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.
Center to Advance Palliative Care - Promotes wider access to palliative care in hospitals and health systems throughout the United States.
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.
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.
Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care - Consumer and professional health education on the treatment of chronic pain as well as on comfort or palliative care for those with long-term illness. Beth Israel Medical Center, New York.
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.
End of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC) - Training material and informational repository for physicians who educate about end of life (EOL) issues.
End-of-Life Care Eases Pain and Prepares Patient for Death - Article on palliative care.
THe EPEC Project (Education on Palliative and End-of-life-Care) - Offers continuing medical education conferences, distance learning, educational materials and consulting.
General Practice Notebook - Palliative care - Coverage of this medical speciality.
HMS Center for Palliative Care - Programs offered at Harvard Medical School for healthcare professionals. Located in Boston, Mass.
Innovations in End-of-Life Care - This on-line journal features peer-reviewed examples of promising practices in end-of-life care.
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.
M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Symptom Control and Palliative Care - A resource for clinical information, education, research and academic training in palliative care.
Palliative Drugs - Provides independent information for health professionals about drugs usage in this specialty.
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.
Saint Joseph's Hospital - PalliativeProgram - Information about palliative care and this multidisciplinary team of palliative care providers.
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.
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.
The Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care - A center located at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital answers questions about palliative care.
Texas Academy of Palliative Medicine - Developed for palliative care physicians in Texas, containing details of meetings and useful online resources.
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. Help build the largest human-edited directory on the web.