helpful links

• Defining palliative medicine
• Palliative medicine definitions
• What patients want
• Improving clinical outcomes
• Palliative medicine issues advocacy
• Five Wishes
• Speaking to loved ones/planning for terminal illness
• Advance directives
• American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
• American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Board of Directors (Neal Ellison, MD, member)
• Last Acts, a call-to-action campaign to improve care at the end of life
• City of Hope, pain/palliative care resource center website
• Center to Advance Palliative Care
• Journal of Palliative Medicine:
       Components of Early Outpatient Palliative Care Consultation in Patients with Metastatic Nonsmall Cell Lung Cancer