Palliative Medicine Resources on the Internet

Clinical Guides

• Pallimed Prognosis Links
• End of Life Care Curriculum for Medical Teachers from Stanford Faculty Development Center
• The Edmonton Palliative Care Program of the University of Alberta
• The End of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC): educational materials about end of life (EOL) issues.
• Bandolier Library, Palliative and supportive care and Oxford Pain site
• Center to Advance Palliative Care
• National Cancer Institute Coping with Cancer Information includes PDQ for Health Professionals.
• HRSA Palliative Guide, for HIV/AIDS

Practice Guidelines

• National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care (NCP)

Reports, Monographs

• Palliative Care for Children, American Academy of Pediatrics, 2000
• Symptom Research from NIH, including Interactive Textook
• Improving Palliative Care for Cancer: Summary and Recommendations. NEW 2001 Report from Institute of Medicine.
• Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life 1997 Report from Institute of Medicine
• Principles for Care of Patients at the End of Life: An Emerging Consensus among the Specialties of Medicine Christine K. Cassel and Kathleen M. Foley, December 1999, Milbank Memorial Fund
• Recommendations for End-of-Life Care in the ICU: The Ethics Committee of the Society of Critical Care Medicine
• Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Therapy American Thoracic Society

Family/Caregiver Guides

• American College of Physicians Home Care Guide for Advanced Cancer

Other Resources

• Growth House has a wide array of useful material, listservs and blogs
• EndLink--Resources for EOL Education from Northwestern Univ.
• Old UB Center for Clinical Ethics and Humanities in Health Care Hospice/Palliative Care Web Page (many links not current)