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The Effects of Religion and Spirituality on Coping Efficacy for Death and Dying

Clear practitioner-patient communication offers patients who are dying the best chance of achieving a “good death.”

Challenges of Treating Young Patients With a Terminal Prognosis

Learn more about how to have that difficult conversation with the family of a terminally ill child.

Defining Palliative Care

Learn more about what defines palliative care, and which seriously ill patients will benefit the most from palliative pain care.

Discussing Benefits of Palliative Care

A recent meta-analysis found that palliative care interventions were associated with statistically and clinically significant improvements in patient quality of life (QoL) and symptom burden.1

Palliative and Hospice Care

Definition of Palliative Care and Hospice Care

Palliative Care: Dying With Dignity

Mary Lynn McPherson, PharmD, and Russell Portenoy, MD, discuss how palliative and hospice care helps patients and families transition to end of life care, including appropriate pain management.

Hospice Care Evolution

This personal account of the early days of hospice care provides a perspective on progress to date and lessons learned.

Part 2 Hospice Care Practice

Article discusses hospice and its implications for the physician and chronic pain patients in dealing with end-of-life issues.

Pain Management in a Palliative Care Setting

Pain management strategies in the palliative care setting must take into account barriers to appropriate pain management. Article describes these strategies.

Pain Management in Nursing Homes and Hospice Care

Despite the availability of a wide variety of effective pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic treatments for pain, understanding of pain remains a significant problem in nursing homes and hospices.

Pain Management and Terminal Illness

The prevalence of pain in terminally ill patients requires that physicians acquire the skills necessary to provide palliative pain treatment at end of life.

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