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Clinical Guidelines

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care. National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care (NCP). (Link to HTML) (Link to PDF)

National Guideline Clearinghouse™ (NGC) (Link)

The management of persistent pain in older persons. American Geriatrics Society. (Link)
World Health Organization. Palliative Care: Symptom Management and End-of-Life Care (Link to PDF)
Advance directives: protecting patient's rights. The John A. Hartford Foundation Institute for Geriatric Nursing - Academic Institution. 2003. (Link)
Clinical practice guideline on shared decision-making in the appropriate initiation of and withdrawal from dialysis. Renal Physicians Association. (Link)

End-of-life care in patients with lung cancer. American College of Chest Physicians. (Link)

Altered nutritional status. American Medical Directors Association. (Link)

Dehydration and fluid maintenance. American Medical Directors Association. (Link)

Chronic pain management in the long-term care setting. American Medical Directors Association. (Link)
Evidence-based protocol. Elderly suicide: secondary prevention. University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center. (Link)
Practice parameter: the care of the patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (an evidence-based review). Report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology: ALS Practice Parameters Task Force. (Link)

Control of pain in patients with cancer. A national clinical guideline. Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network. (Link)

American Psychological Assn. End-of-life Issues and Care. Includes an extensive bibliography and resource list. (Link)

Family bereavement support before and after the death of a nursing home resident. University of Iowa Gerontological Nursing Interventions Research Center. (Link)

 

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