End-of-Life & Palliative Care Fundamentals Principles for Care of Patients at the End of Life: An Emerging Consensus among the Specialties of Medicine – from the University of Massachusetts-Worchester Medical School, End of Life Care Program Position Statement: Definition of Palliative Care and Palliative Medicine – from the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) Handbook – from Education for Physicians in EOL Care (EPEC) Once on the screen press Click here to download Current Research The Design of Clinical Trials for Treatment of Pain – from NIH The Psychology of Patient Decision-making – from NIH A Controlled Trial to Improve Care for Seriously Ill Hospitalized Patients – from CAPC Additional Resources Language of the End of Life – from Matthew Kestenbaum, MD, the Washington Home Position Statement: Comprehensive End-of-Life Care and Physician-assisted Suicide – from AAHPM Five Wishes: an easy-to-use advance care planning document – from Aging with Dignity The MacArthur Healthcare Preferences Questionnaire: End of Life Care for Persons with Serious Mental Illness – from RWJF Curriculum Guidelines: End of Life Care – from the American Academy of Family Physicians Means to a Better End: A Report on Dying in America Today – from LastActs Palliative Drugs (requires free registration) Multicultural EOL Care – from Growth House, Inc. Pioneer Programs in Palliative Care – from RWJF Innovations in End-of-Life Care an international journal of leaders in end-of-life care LastActs (part of the Robert Wood Johnson Project) Center for Applied Ethics and Professional Practice << Back to Learners' Explorer Index