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- Resources for Grief Support Group Leaders
Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:55:00 GMT
The Growth House bookstore has a selection of professional guides to help you run grief groups. Reprintable handouts and suggested group formats are available in workbook formats for both leaders and participants.
- Advance Directives and Outcomes of Surrogate Decision Making before Death
Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:55:00 GMT
The New England Journal of Medicine published a study that examined whether patients with advance directives who lacked the capacity to make decisions received their preferred care. Researchers reviewed 3,746 deaths and found that 42.5% of patients needed to make treatment decisions near the end of life. More than 70% of those people lacked the capacity to make choices and the majority, 67.6% had advance directives in place. Those instructions were almost always carried out by decision-making surrogates.
- What Would Don Berwick Do About Delivery System Reform?
Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:55:00 GMT
President Obama’s proposed nomination of Don Berwick to head CMS says a lot about the administration’s overarching plan for delivery system reform.
- New study compares best practice guidelines for end of life care from 34 health organizations
Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:55:00 GMT
Les Morgan writes on the Growth House blog about a comparative study of palliative care guidelines and official practice statements for end-of-life care provided by over 34 health organizations published in BMC Palliative Care.
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