Information for Providers

Welcome to the main menu for Information for Providers. Click on the links below to find information that is useful to health care professionals with patients who require palliative care, and to those patients who are looking for information at a clinical level.

Transition to Palliative and Supportive Care

• Introduction to Palliative Care
• Palliative Care Teams
• Barriers To Good End-of-Life Care
• References

Pain Management

• Clinical Classification of Pain
• Causes of Pain
• Pain Assessment
• Pharmacological Approaches to Pain Management

Symptom Management

• Symptoms: Digestive Tract
• Symptoms: Skin and Mouth Problems
• Symptoms: Other Common Symptoms

End-of-Life Decision-Making

• Assessing Capacity
• End-of-Life Decision-Making

Psychosocial and Spiritual Concerns

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Grief
• Spirituality

Managing the Last Hours

• Comprehensive Care Considerations: The CARxE Approach
• Assessment
• Management

Communicating with Patients and Families

• Breaking Bad News
• Dealing with Strong Emotions
• CLASS: The basic structure of clinical encounters
• Communicating with Children
• Discussions about Euthanasia

Helping Patients and Families Prepare

• Assessing support needs
• Planning and Preparing

The information in this section is largely adapted from the Ian Anderson Continuing Education Program in End of Life Care.
http://www.cme.utoronto.ca/endoflife/

This page was last updated: September 6th, 2005 at 1:54pm.