- Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
US organization dedicated to improving healthcare for dying persons and their families through demonstration projects addressing particular challenges to existing models of hospice and palliative care.
http://www.promotingexcellence.org/
- Sue Ryder Care
UK palliative care charity with seven hospices, which provide pain control, respite care and day care for people with serious and terminal conditions.
http://www.suerydercare.org
- The Aid in Dying Communication Project
Provides on-line educational materials and consulting services to help physicians and other health professionals improve their communication and assessment skills when working with patients who request aid-in-dying, assisted suicide, or other types of hastened death.
http://www.aidindying.com/
- University of Ottawa Institute of Palliative Care
A Canadian center for advanced training, research and scholarship in palliative and hospice care. The institute's mission is to increase the quality of life for people with terminal illness.
http://www.pallcare.org/
- VA Faculty Leader Project
The development of a benchmark curricula for end-of-life and palliative care for training resident physicians from the Department of Veterans Affairs.
http://www.va.gov/oaa/flp/
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