Journals, Publications, Textbooks Related To Palliative Care

Journals, Publications, Textbooks

Online Palliative Care Journal Club

"JournalClub brings you the latest journal articles on Palliative Care. Browse your favourite journals and view the contents of the latest issue. Articles from Palliative Care journals, that may be of particular interest are flagged as Choice, and articles from other journals that are relevant to palliative care are selected by the editor(s)."

Articles Available Online

ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel

Papers produced by the panel available through this site:

Care at the End of Life: Guiding Practice Where There Are No Easy Answers
Bernard Lo, MD, FACP, Lois Snyder, JD, and Harold C. Sox, MD, FACP
Ann Intern Med 1999;130:772-4
Discussing Palliative Care with Patients
Bernard Lo, MD, FACP, Timothy Quill, MD, FACP, and James Tulsky, MD, for the ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel
Ann Intern Med 1999;130:744-9
A Consensus-Based Approach To Providing Palliative Care to Patients Who Lack Decision-Making Capacity
Jason H.T. Karlawish, MD, Timothy Quill, MD, FACP, and Diane E. Meier, MD, FACP for the ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel
Ann Intern Med 1999;130:835-40
Management of Pain and Spinal Cord Compression in Patients with Advanced Cancer
Janet L. Abrahm, MD, FACP, for the ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel
Ann Intern Med 1999;131:37-46
Dying Patients in the ICU: Forgoing Treatment, Maintaining Care
Kathy Faber-Langendoen, MD and Paul Lanken, MD, FACP, for the ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel
Ann Intern Med 2000;133:886-893
Beyond Good Symptom Management: Opportunities Within Palliative and End-of-Life Care
(Currently available in Physician's Guide to End-of-Life Care book)
Ira Byock, MD, Arthur Caplan, PhD, and Lois Snyder, JD, for the ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel
Responding to Intractable Suffering: The Role of Terminal Sedation and Voluntary Refusal of Food and Fluids
Ira Byock, MD and Timothy Quill, MD, FACP, for the ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel
Ann Intern Med 2000;132:408-414
Assessing and Managing Depression in the Terminally Ill Patient
Susan Block, MD, for the ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel
Ann Intern Med 2000;132:209-218
Strategies for Culturally Effective End-of-Life Care
LaVera Crawley, MD, Patricia Marshall, PhD, and Barbara Koenig, RN, PhD, for the ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel
Legal Barriers to End-of-Life Care: Myths, Realities, and Grains of Truth
Alan Meisel, JD, Lois Snyder, JD, and Timothy Quill, MD, FACP, for the ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel
JAMA 2000;284:2495-2501
Life after Death: A Practical Approach to Grief and Bereavement
David Casarett, MD, Janet Abrahm, MD, FACP, and Jean Kutner, MD, for the ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel
Ann Intern Med 2001;134:208-215
Diagnosis and Management of Delirium Near the End of Life
David Casarett, MD and Sharon Inouye, MD, for the ACP-ASIM End-of-Life Care Consensus Panel
Ann Intern Med 2001;135:32-40

BioMed Central (BMC) Online Publications in Palliative Care

"BMC Palliative Care (ISSN 1472-684X) is an online journal publishing research articles after full peer review. All articles are published, without barriers to access, immediately upon acceptance. The journal is published by BioMed Central Ltd, Middlesex House, 34-42 Cleveland Street, London W1T 4LB, UK."

British Medical Journal Palliative Medicine Collection

Links to Journal Home Pages

Online Palliative Care Texts (freely accessible content)

International Association for Hospice and Palliative Care (IAHPC) Manual of Palliative Care

"The IAHPC offers this Manual in the hope that doctors and nurses world-wide will find the information in it helpful, will feel free to download whatever parts of it they want , and will make its existence known to colleagues also seeking to improve their skills so as to offer better care to their terminally ill patients."

National Academy Press Books

Approaching Death: Improving Care at the End of Life (1997) Marilyn J. Field and Christine K. Cassel, Editors; Committee on Care at the End of Life, Institute of Medicine
Improving Palliative Care for Cancer (2001) Foley, K.M. and Gelband, H. Editors
When Children Die: Improving Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families (2002)- Institute of Medicine (IOM) Marilyn J. Field and Richard E. Behrman, Editors, Committee on Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families, Board on Health Sciences Policy

Links to Palliative Care Textbook Home Pages (No online textbook content)

Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Resource Text: The Health Effects of Cannabis

Compassion Books

"Over 400 resources to help children and adults through serious illness, death, loss, grief and bereavement. Reviewed and selected by knowledgeable professionals."

Oxford University Press- Palliative Medicine Texts Site

Oxford University Press has a very impressive selection of texts related to end-of-life care. An excellent resource!