Health Literacy
Culture, Communication, and Ethics in Healthcare
End of Life Care and Decision Making
End of Life Care and Decision Making
| ACP Decisions |
Non-profit foundation consisting of a group of clinicians who want to empower patients and families with video support tools about advance care planning |
| Begin the Conversation |
Links to toolkit and free resources to encourage beginning the conversation about advance care planning. |
| Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End |
Information about the Book, Being Mortal by surgeon Atul Gawande who describes the limitations of medicine around the issues of death and dying. |
| Caring Connections | Supporting Advance Care Planning, palliative care, pain and symptom management, grief and bereavement. Advance Directives from all states. |
| End-of-life care and decision making |
Advance directives, Palliative Care, Care at Death, Organ Donation, Decedent Affairs, Resuscitation, DNR, DDNR, Bereavement |
| National Healthcare Decisions Day |
Information to educate and empower the public and providers about the importance of advance care planning |
| Plan Ahead For You and Your Family |
Tools and information from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on the importance of advance care planning. |
| The Joint Commission (TJC) | Evaluates and accredits nearly 16,000 health care organizations and programs in the US. They provide tools related to health literacy patient and family centered care, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgenered community and patient safety. |
| The Patient’s Toolkit for Diagnosis |
The Toolkit has a set of prompts and questions to help you participate and partner with your medical care team. |
| University of Virginia Center for Biomedical Ethics and Humanities | Interprofessional center for the study and promotion of biomedical ethics and medical humanities. Offers Medical Center Hour and Schwartz Rounds. |
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