Thursday, June 4, 2009

Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, Second Edition, Now Available

The National Consensus Project has released the second edition of its Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care. The guidelines describe the core precepts and structures of clinical palliative care programs and were adopted by the National Quality Forum.

This new edition provides "real examples of how various organizations have used the Guidelines to operationalize optimal end-of-life care."