Monthly Archives: April 2012

An access to palliative care indicator should measure activity – average drug consumption is not sufficient

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

Mogens Groenvold, MD, Chairman of the Danish Palliative Care Database, Head of the Research Unit, Department of Palliative Medicine, Bispebjerg Hospital, and Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark As discussed in previous posts on this blog, WHO has proposed an … Continue reading →

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Palliative Care Network – promoting global collaboration and knowledge exchange

Posted on April 25, 2012 by

 Parag Bharadwaj, MD FAAHPM, Founder, Palliative Care Network Palliative Care Network  (PCN) was launched in 2007, based on the idea of using readily available technology to bridge the knowledge gap among palliative care professionals worldwide. We began PCN with a Directory … Continue reading →

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Growing the global community in palliative care – #hpmglobal tweetchat

Posted on April 22, 2012 by

Jim Cleary, MD, Palliative Care Physician, UW Carbone Cancer Center, and Director, Pain and Policy Studies Group, Wisconsin, USA The world of social media is certainly an interesting one. Email, blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest… all having an impact of various … Continue reading →

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Palliative care in dementia – Delphi consensus procedure begins

Posted on April 22, 2012 by

Jenny van der Steen, EMGO Institute for Health and Care Research, Department of Nursing Home Medicine, VU University Medical Center, Amsterdam, Netherlands More than 80 experts in palliative and dementia care from about 25 countries across Europe and elsewhere are … Continue reading →

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Palliative care indicators – the debate continues

Posted on April 21, 2012 by

Diederik Lohman, Senior Researcher, Health and Human Rights Division, Human Rights Watch I fully agree that a global indicator for palliative care should ideally measure not just pain control but palliative care more broadly. The problem is that we do … Continue reading →

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