In an effort to provide supportive operational detail about specific features necessary for program sustainability and growth and to help guide hospitals starting new or strengthening existing palliative care programs, the Center to Advance Palliative Care convened a consensus panel to develop recommendations for key operational features for hospital programs. Twenty-two recommendations are grouped into 12 domains and include [...]
Bibliografía en internet sobre cuidados paliativos pediátricos. Recursos on line en español y en Inglés. Heathers L. Rogers, Catherine D¨Souza y Satbir Jassal. Medicina Paliativa en niños y adolescentes. 2015. PSF. 699--708 Nadie puede procurarte paz salvo el triunfo de los principios. Ralph Waldo Emerson DESCARGAR PDF
To guide the provision of quality palliative care services across the African region, the African Palliative Care Association (APCA) has developed a framework of core palliative care competencies that can be used by service providers, educators and other stakeholders to guide programmes development. The competencies are developed based on the following principles: All patients have access to high-quality [...]
In education, as in other areas of clinical practice, the early experiences are very important in sending messages of enthusiasm for the subject, of its excitement, its place in medicine as a whole, and its value to patients and the public. Palliative care needs well-qualified leaders if it is to continue to grow and develop as a [...]
The standards are designed to allow the development or improvement of palliative care across the different services levels,within the organisational capacity of various service providers in Africa, according to WHO guidelines. DESCARGAR PDF
El ideal de la Medicina Paliativa está relacionado con tres cosas: la calidad de la vida, el valor de la vida y el significado de la vida. La calidad de la vida la da la liberación del dolor, del temor y de otros síntomas molestos y la calidad de cuidados. El valor de la [...]
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