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Denton Area Partnership for End of Life Care, 2010
American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine
Palliative care physician-membership organization hosts conferences and provides guidance to assist health care professionals in treating patients.
Center to Advance Palliative Care
Provides health care professionals with the tools, training, and technical assistance necessary to start and sustain successful palliative care programs in hospitals and other health care settings.
Caring Connections
A consumer Web site, Caring Connections is devoted to providing information on caregiving and choices for those with life-threatening illnesses.
Epidemiology of Dying and End-of-Life Experience
An access point for clinicians, health policy experts, and advocates to search health services and epidemiological data on end-of-life care in the United States.
Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association
This is a membership organization for nursing teams working in the specialty of hospice and palliative care across the life-span continuum.
Institute for Healthcare Improvement
The Institute for Health Care Improvement is a not-for-profit organization leading the improvement of health care throughout the world.
National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care
The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care promotes the implementation of clinical practice guidelines that ensure care of consistent and high quality and that guide the development and structure of new and existing palliative care services.
Cicely Saunders International
Cicely Saunders International focuses on carrying out quality research to improve the care and treatment of all patients with progressive illness and to make high-quality palliative care available to everyone who needs it.
National Cancer Institute at the National Institute of Health
A fact sheet for laypeople detailing what can be expected when the end of life is nearing.
