Physician & Provider Tools

On the Web

http://www.eperc.mcw.edu/ EPERC shares educational resource material among the community of health professional educators involved in palliative care education.

www.growthhouse.org, Growth House Inc. Resource Directory - the hypertext topic pages cover hospice and home care, palliative care, pain management, grief, death with dignity, quality improvement, the use of Music in care of the dying. There are disease-specific guides for heart failure, end-stage renal disease, and cancer, plus overviews of key HIV/AIDS resources.

www.edc.org/lastacts, Innovations in End-of-Life Care, archived articles from an international journal of leaders in end-of-life care, includes tools, bibliographies. (Jan.1999 – Sept.2003)

http://www.epec.net/EPEC/Webpages/index.cfm The EPEC Project (Education in Palliative and End-of-life Care) mission is to educate all healthcare professionals on the essential clinical competencies in palliative care.

http://www.hospicefed.org/hospice_pages/best.htm This site provides links to best practice reports, such as palliative sedation protocols, bridge programs, updated on a continuing basis.

In Print

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Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care
National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care, Executive Summary. 26 pages. Download full text version at www.nationalconsensusproject.org. Print copies of the executive summary (item #820539) and full text version (item #829538) can be ordered online at www.nhpco.org/Marketplace or call toll-free at 800-646-6460.