JAMA Features Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care
JAMA has published a Medical News article and podcast featuring the National Consensus Project’s Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care, 4th edition (NCP Guidelines).
Dr. Martha Twaddle, NCP Guidelines Co-Chair, provides information about the guidelines and practical suggestions for their implementation. The Q&A is also available in the July 2019 print issue of JAMA.
The guidelines promote improved access to palliative care, which is focused on giving patients and their caregivers relief from the symptoms and stress of serious illness, is based on need, not prognosis, and can be provided along with disease-focused treatment. The guidelines include tools, resources and practice examples to help with implementation.
The guidelines were funded by a grant from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation with additional support for the systematic review provided by the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, Gary and Mary West Foundation, The John A. Hartford Foundation and Stupski Foundation. More than 80 national organizations have endorsed the guidelines.
To read the JAMA article, click here.
To listen to the podcast, click here.
To go to the guidelines, click here.
To read the press release, click here.
