Welcome to the Hospice & Palliative Care Resources Guide
This Resource Guide is a collaboration between Mount Carmel Health Sciences Library and the Hospice & Palliative Care Staff. Please contact the library if you need further help or would like to suggest other relevant resources to be added to this guide.
Hospice & Palliative Care Core Links
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Sign up for a CAPC Central Account using your Mount Carmel email address (@mchs.com) and earn CE credits.
Begin with the module "Palliative Care 101" located under Training Curriculum.
Library Services Available to Hospice & Palliative Care Staff
- Request access to Mount Carmel Library. Email will be sent when library account is activated.
- Request the full-text of an article.
- Request a librarian to search the medical literature for articles on a topic.
- Through MCHS Interoffice Mail Delivery, we will deliver print books to your work/office location.
Hospice & Palliative Care Featured Articles
- Finally, Proof that Palliative Care Improves Outcomes for Patients with Advanced Heart FailureA Review of Palliative Care in Heart Failure: The PAL-HF Randomized, Controlled Clinical Trial by Rogers et al. Reviewed by Nathan E. Goldstein, MD Department of Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 2017.
- Ten Measures to Drive Quality Palliative and Hospice CareDoctors and Nurses Should Measure What Matters
When Treating Patients with Serious, Life-threatening Illnesses. 2015. - A Controlled Trial to Improve Care for Seriously Ill Hospitalized PatientsThe Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments (SUPPORT). JAMA. 2015; 272(20): 1591-1598.
- Popping the Question.Kaminski M. Pulse: Voices from the Heart of Medicine. 2015.
- How to Find a Good HospiceFrom Consumer Reports. Oct 2014.
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Non-Mount Carmel organizations referenced on this website are identified for informational purposes only. Mount Carmel is not endorsing these organizations. The services these organizations provide, and the values or opinions they express, may not be consistent with the teachings of the Catholic Church and the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services. Mount Carmel makes no representations concerning the conduct or beliefs of these organizations.