End-of-Life Topic Articles Links
- Listening to patients at the end of their lives is crucial - so why don't doctors do it?
- End-of-Life Discussions Challenging for Doctors, Study Shows
- Imagine a Medicare "Part Q" for Quality at the End of Life
- New Medicare Rule Authorizes 'End-of-Life' Consultations
- How to get what we need at the end of life
- Medicare to Pay for Doctors, Patients to Discuss End-of-Life Wishes
- Talking Early about How Life Should End
- Physicians Avoid Conversations about Religion in the ICU
- Medicare Plans to Pay Doctors for Counseling on End of Life
- With Palin "Death Panels" Debunked, Congress Pushes End-of-Life Planning
- Wisconsin is learning how to die
- Most Physicians Would Forgo Aggressive Treatment for Themselves at the End-of-Life, Study Finds
- Implementing a Care Planning System: How to Fix the Most Pervasive Errors in Health Care
- An Extra Layer of Care: The Progress of Palliative Medicine
- Physician-Assisted Suicide is Not Progressive
- Dying Shouldn't Be So Brutal
- Prescribing the End-of-Life Conversation
- Warehouses for the Dying: Are We Prolonging Life or Prolonging Death?
- Medicare Weighs Paying for End-of-Life Counseling
- A Tale of Two Deaths: The Paradigm Shift of the '15 Minute Test'
- Institute of Medicine Urges Reforms to Improve Care for Dying People
- Panel Urges Overhauling Health Care at End of Life
- Dying in America: Improving Quality and Honoring Individual Preferences Near the End-of-Life
- What Joan Rivers Taught Us About Dying
- When It's the Doctor Who Can't Let Go
- Coverage for End-of-Life Talks Gaining Ground
- Teaching Doctors When to Stop Treatment
- A 'Code Death' for Dying Patients
- Europe Looks to La Crosse, Wisconsin for End-of-Life Care Model
- When Doctors Need to Lie
- Basic Palliative Care: Not for Experts Only
- Generalist plus Specialist Palliative Care: Creating a More Sustainable Model
- How Not to Die
- Doctors' Secret for How to Die Right: Why Do Physicians Make Different End-of-Life Choices Than the Rest of Us?
- The Ultimate End-of-Life Plan - How One Woman Fought the Medical Establishment and Avoided What Most Americans Fear; Prolonged, Plugged-in Suffering
- Most Americans Would Like to Die Before They Turn 100
- Checklist Theory Used in Creating End-of-Life Talk Guide
- Medicare Spending and Care Intensity at the End of Life Increases, While Time in the Hospital Declines
- Religious Support Tied to Intensive End-of-Life Care
- End-of-Life Talks Lacking Between Doctors, Patients
- Hospice Use Rises; So Does Aggressive Care
- End-of-Life Care Rarely Discussed
- When Death is Better Than a Nursing Home
- Communicating with Patients on Health Care Evidence
- E-mail Reminders Prompt Doctors to Discuss End-of-Life Care, Study Finds
- Advance Care Planning: Ensuring that the Patient's Voice is Heard
- Sites Get People Talking About End-of-Life Care
- 76% of Patients Neglect End-of-Life Planning
- The Doctor Will See You - If You're Quick
- End-of-Life Care: Doctors Urged to Have 'Realistic Conversation' with Patients
- What Doctors Know - and We Can Learn - About Dying
- The Cost of Dying: It's Hard to Reject Care Even as Costs Soar
- How Doctors Die
- A Conversation Many Doctors Won't Have
- Death: Let's Talk About It
- Where the Oldest Die Now
- A Father's Last Days
- Preparing for Life's Final Stage
- Open the Discussion on Dying
- Why this Wisconsin City is the Best Place to Die
- La Crosse Health Care Could be Model for National Reform
- Debate Over End-of-Life Care Began in Small Midwestern Town
- Make End-of-Life More Humane
- End-of-Life Transitions Among Nursing Home Residents with Cognitive Issues
- Overcoming Unconscious Incompetence: Improving Specialty Resident Education
- Law on End-of-Life Care Rankles Doctors
- The Palliative Care Information Act in Real Life
- Frank talk about care at life's end
- In Medicare's Data Trove, Clues to Curing Cost Crisis
- The Hot Spotters: Can We Lower Medical Costs by Giving the Neediest Better Care?
- Waiting in the Dark with Dad
- Dignity in the Final Chapter
- Death Panels Haunt Health Care Debate
- From Butterflies, Lessons About Life and Death
- End-of-Life Care: How You (MDs) Can Help Stressed Surrogates
- Caring for Terminally Ill Starts with a Talk
- Trends and Variation in End-of-Life Care for Medicare Beneficiaries with Severe Chronic Illness
- U.S. Alters Rule on Paying for End-of-Life Planning
- America's Health Care Addiction
- Tracking the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic Illness
- 100 things, leading to a single choice
- The Good Short Life
- Allowing natural death vs. “Do Not Resuscitate” (scroll down to page 3)
- Avoiding the call to hospice
- Death trap: A Vermont-reporter-turned advocate spreads the gospel of dying well
- Doing death better: How we deal with the end of life
- Harry and Louise must die: We could save billions in healthcare if we could accept death and say goodbye outside the hospital
- The dying of the light: The drawn-out indignities of the American way of death
- Advanced dementia: Managing the burden
- Easing Life's Final Choices
- Hospice in the Nursing Home
- Studies: Some nursing home elderly get futile care
- The case for killing granny: rethinking end-of-life care
- The bitter end: My grandmother lived a full life and sought a quiet death. America’s health-care system had a different idea of what was best.
- Facing End-of-Life Talks, Doctors Choose to Wait
- Testimony on House Bill 304 on Physician Assisted Suicide
- Lessons of a $618,616 Death
- End-of-Life Issues Need to be Addressed
- At the End, Offering Not a Cure but Comfort
- What Price for Medical Miracles?
- What Broke My Father's Heart
- Americans are Treated, and Overtreated, to Death
- The cost conundrum: What a Texas town can teach us about health care
- Letting go: What should medicine do when it can't save your life?
- Why doctors need more education about the end-of-life
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