Library Grand Rounds

Palliative and End-of-Life Care Information Resources:
A Case-Based Presentation
Thursday, December 16, 2004

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Palliative and End-of-Life Care Information Resources

Palliative care is an interdisciplinary approach to care focused on comfort and quality of life. As a clinician, you need information resources to help in managing matters that impact quality of life of patients and families. These range from physical symptoms, practical aspects of home care, emotional, social and spiritual concerns to issues of life completion and closure and grief support for families.

This Library Grand Rounds featured Ira Byock, M.D., Director, Palliative Care Program, Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center and Cindy Stewart, M.L.S., Associate Director/Health Sciences Library, Dartmouth Biomedical Libraries. They used a case presentation to demonstrate the useful resources available to you to address such palliative care issues as: where to find advance directive forms and policies, emergency medications for symptom control in the home, hospice eligibility, and locating a hospice program.

Library Grand Rounds are a forum for presenting information resources and tools of interest to Dartmouth clinicians. Please contact Karen Odato, the Libraries' Education Coordinator, if you have questions, comments or suggestions for future Library Grand Rounds.

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center designates this educational activity for up to one Category I credit towards the AMA Physician's Recognition Award. Each physician should claim only those credits that he or she actually spent in the educational activity.

The Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.