To investigate the effect of the Palliative Care for Older People (PACE) Steps to Success Program on resident and staff outcomes.
December 2, 2019
Evaluation of a palliative care program for nursing homes in 7 countries: the PACE Cluster-Randomized Clinical Trial
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31710345To investigate the effect of the Palliative Care for Older People (PACE) Steps to Success Program on resident and staff outcomes.
December 2, 2019
Japan health ministry withdraws end-of-life care poster campaign after online backlash
https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20191127/p2a/00m/0na/008000cACP, also known informally as “the life meeting,” is a ministry effort that seeks to get people and their families to speak to doctors and others […]
December 2, 2019
Do physicians require consent to withhold CPR that they determine to be non-beneficial? (James Downer)
https://www.cmaj.ca/content/191/47/E1289In the past few years, Ontario has made international news because of a series of landmark legal cases involving end-of-life conflicts.
November 25, 2019
‘Confessions of a reluctant caregiver’ palliative educational program: the results of a survey assessing physicians’ perceptions of drama-based education for end-of-life care
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13187-019-01655-7Inadequate palliative care training in medical education is associated with many physicians feeling unprepared to care for dying patients and their families.