NPO Products

This section contains articles, books, bibliographies, monographs and reports developed by Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care projects and the national program office (NPO) on a variety of topics. Also see Resources and Tools for related works organized by topic.

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Articles

• Aligning Values with Practice
  Health Progress, July-August 2004
  The nationwide Promoting Excellence program demonstrates the practicality of palliative care for patients, families and caregivers.
  By Jeanne S. Twohig & Ira Byock, M.D.
  
  
• Dying Well in Corrections: Why Should We Care [PDF 126 KB / 9 pages]
  By Ira R. Byock, M.D.
  
  
• Hospice Benefits and Phase I Cancer Trials [PDF 101 KB / 6 pages]
  By Ira Byock, M.D. and Steven H. Miles, M.D.
  
  
• Journal of Palliative Medicine Series
  The Journal of Palliative Medicine special series of articles describing the experiences and exciting results of 22 innovative demonstration projects funded by Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care.
  
  
• Palliative Care By The Surgeon
  The Journal of American College of Surgeons (JACS) (circulation: 65,000 surgeons) has featured a 20-plus article series on palliative care in surgery, the editor of which is Surgeons Workgroup co-chair Geoffrey Dunn, M.D.
  
  
• Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care: A Report on Innovative Models of Palliative Care
  This article discusses the 22 Promoting Excellence demonstration projects and their impact on the field of palliative care.
  Journal of Palliative Medicine, Volume 9, Number 1, 2006.
  
  
• The Ethics of Loving Care
  Health Progress, July-August 2004
  Palliative care, like pediatrics, understands that patients should always be seen as capable of growth.
  By Ira Byock, M.D.

Audio/Visual

• NHPCO Conference Learning Tracks
  In collaboration with the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization (NHPCO), Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care presented learning tracks at three consecutive NHPCO conferences in 2003 - 2004.

Bibliographies

• Comprehensive Bibliography and Resource Page for Critical Care End-of-Life Issues (See the AACN Web site.)
  
  
• NOTE: For bibliographies of individual Promoting Excellence grantees (demonstration projects) see their respective grantee pages.

Books

• The Four Things That Matter Most: A Book About Living
  Ira Byock, M.D.
  Free Press, March 2004
  
  
• Palliative and End-of-Life Pearls
  Co-editors: John E.Heffner, M.D. & Ira R. Byock, M.D.
  with contributions of clinicians who are at the leading edge of these realms of clinical practice.
  Hanley and Belfus, Inc.; Philadelphia, April 2002
  
  
• A Few Months to Live: Different Paths to Life's End
  Jana Staton, Roger Shuy & Ira Byock M.D.
  Georgetown University Press, May 2001
  
  
• Dying Well: The Prospect of Growth at the End-of-Life
  Ira Byock, M.D.
  Putnam / Riverhead, 1997

Monographs

• HIV Care: An Agenda for Change: HIV/AIDS Workgroup Recommendations to the Field
  
  
• Lifting the Veil of Huntington's Disease: Huntington's Disease Workgroup Recommendations to the Field
  
  
• Accounting for the Costs of Caring Through the End of Life: Cost Accounting Workgroup Recommendations to the Field
  
  
• Completing the Continuum of ALS Care: A Consensus Document
  
  
• Living and Dying Well with Cancer
  
  
• Financial Implications of Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care
  
  
• End-Stage Renal Disease Workgroup Recommendations to the Field
  
  
• Advanced Practice Nursing: Pioneering Practices in Palliative Care
  
  
• New End-of-Life Benefits Models in Blue Cross & Blue Shield Plans

Reports

• Integrating Cancer Care and Palliative Care
  

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Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care was a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation dedicated to long-term changes in health care institutions to substantially improve care for dying people and their families.