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National Palliative Care Guidelines

Primary Palliative Care Trigger Criteria (CAPC Consensus)
A National Framework and Preferred Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care Quality
Palliative Care Health Care Guidelines and Order Sets
These guidelines will assist primary and specialty care providers in identifying and caring for adult patients with a potentially life-limiting, life-threatening or chronic, progressive illness who may benefit from palliative care.

National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care
Operational Features for Hospital Palliative Care Programs: Consensus Recommendations
Pediatric Palliative Care Standards
White Paper on Standards and Norms for Hospice and Palliative Care in Europe
NCCN Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology™: Palliative Care (2010)
Palliative and End of Life Care Physician Performance Measurement Set
National Committee for Quality Assurance - The Physician Consortium for Performance Improvement®

Clinical Practice Guideline on Shared Decision-Making in the Appropriate Initiation of and Withdrawal from Dialysis, 2nd Edition
Guidelines for the Psychosocial and Bereavement Support of Family Caregivers
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