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Exchange routinely covers several major topic areas. Check the index by topic below to find the article(s) you are looking for.

Public Policy

Legislative Proposals For End-of-Life Care Fail to Yield Congressional Actions: What Advocates Must Do To Push Change (Fall 2002)
End of Life Issues in Current Policy Debates (Spring 2002)
Senators Recommend Ways to Secure Financial Future of Family Caregivers (Spring 2002)
Medicare+Choice: New Approach to Caring For Its Elderly (May/Jun 2001)
Will California Court Find Elder Abuse in Case of Inadequate Pain Management? (May/Jun 2001)
New Administration, New Directions for End-of-Life Care? (Jan/Feb 2001)
How Changes in Public Policy Can Improve End-of-Life Care (Jan/Feb 2001)
Research on Patient Safety and Medical Errors Needs to Include Problems at the End-of-Life (Sep/Oct 2000)
Senate Special Committee on Aging Hearing Focuses on End-of-Life Care: Joanne Lynn, M.D., Testifies (Jun/Jul 2000)
Medicare Prescription Drugs: Congress and the White House Propose Measures to Provide Better Coverage (Jun/Jul 2000)
Breakthrough Series' Participants Want End-of-Life Issues on Party Platforms (May 2000)
Focusing on Heart Failure: Urgent Health Policy Issues for Medicare Reform and Clinical Practice (May 2000)
Government To Study Medicare Hospice Benefits (Apr 2000)
Attorneys General Form National Work Group (Apr 2000)
Update on Medicaring Project (Apr 2000)
More Firsts From Oregon: Physician Disciplined for Providing Inadequate Pain Relief (Aug/Sep 1999)
Pain Relief Promotion Act (Aug/Sep 1999)
Bills, Bills, Bills: Proposals Renew Debate on Federal Role in Improving End-of-Life Care (Jun/Jul 1999)
Comments About The Proposed Pain Relief Promotion Act Of 1999 (Jun/Jul 1999)
Can Congress "Conquer Pain" This Session? (May 1999)
Oregon Board of Medical Examiners Sanctions Doctor for Undertreating Patients' Pain (Apr 1999)
Oregon Reports on Year's Experience with Death with Dignity (Mar 1999)
Mayday Scholars Survey Barriers to Effective Pain Management: Studies Point to Legal and Regulatory Problems (Feb 1999)
Veterans Health Administration's Addition of Pain as a Fifth Vital Sign May Have Far-Reaching Effects (Feb 1999)
Legal Assisted Suicide in Oregon - A Look at Oregon's Experience (Feb 1999)
Study Shows Oregon's Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Document Prevents Unwanted Interventions (Jan 1999)
What's on the Congressional Horizon (Jan 1999)

Innovative Programs
Proven Quality Improvement

Intriguing Ideas

New Program Uses Retired Physicians to Train Their Peers in End-of-Life Care(Mar/Apr 2001)
Johns Hopkins Nursing Leadership on End-of-Life Academy Shows Nurses How to Make a Difference (Jan/Feb 2001)
Pharmacists Have a Role in Improving Care: Insights From the American Hospice Foundation (Jun/Jul 1999)
Cultural Differences Last a Lifetime: Tailoring End-of-Life Care to A Diverse Population (Mar 1999)
Briefing Gives Media the Big Picture (Feb 1999)

Pain and Symptom Management

Will California Court Find Elder Abuse in Case of Inadequate Pain Management? (May/Jun 2001)
Pain Law Center Aims to Improve End-of-Life Care by Challenging and Revising Laws that Affect Patients (Sep/Oct 2000)
Pain Relief Promotion Act (Aug/Sep 1999)
Comments About The Proposed Pain Relief Promotion Act Of 1999 (Jun/Jul 1999)
Can Congress "Conquer Pain" This Session? (May 1999)
World Health Organization Publishes New Guide, Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children (May 1999)
Oregon Board of Medical Examiners Sanctions Doctor for Undertreating Patients' Pain (Apr 1999)
Mayday Scholars Survey Barriers to Effective Pain Management: Studies Point to Legal and Regulatory Problems (Feb 1999)
Veterans Health Administration's Addition of Pain as a Fifth Vital Sign May Have Far-Reaching Effects (Feb 1999)
Complementary Therapies at the End-of-Life: Are They Relevant? (Jan 1999)
Using Practice Guidelines Improves Pain Management for Cancer Patients (Jan 1999)

Caregiver and Family Support

Searching For Spirituality and Inner Peace: Hundreds Gather at Washington's National Cathedral (Mar/Apr 2001)

Year's First Meeting Focuses on the Personal and Political Caregiving Issues (Mar/Apr 2001)

Volunteer Care Teams Work Together to Share the Care (Mar/Apr 2001)

RECOVER: Medical Examiner's Office Teams Up with Bereavement Program To Support Survivors (Nov/Dec 2000)

Story Work, Soul Work: A Workshop on Grieving and Growing through Storytelling (May 1999)

Group Learns How New Models Of Grief Can Aid The Bereaved (Apr 1999)

Research Findings

Study Examines Concerns in Philadelphia African American Community (May/Jun 2001)

Discussing DNR/CPR Preferences in the Nursing Home: A Key Component of Advance Care Planning (Nov/Dec 2000)

Healing Children's Grief: PDIA Leader Offers Ideas on How to Respond (Jun/July 2000)

Using Practice Guidelines Improves Pain Management for Cancer Patients (Jan 1999)

Study Shows Oregon's Physician Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) Document Prevents Unwanted Interventions (Jan 1999)

Programs for Special Populations

Exploring Diversity at EoL: Building Partnerships with Philadelphia Latinos (Fall 2002)

National Attention to Focus on Palliative Care for Children (Fall 2002)

Study Examines Concerns in Philadelphia African American Community (May/Jun 2001)

Addressing End-of-Life Care in Philadelphia's Korean-American Community (Nov/Dec 2000)

A Nurse Practitioner Demonstrates Care of the Dying in Rural Communities (May 2000)

Developing Guidelines to Improve Health Care for Dying Inmates (Jun/Jul 1999)

End-of-Life Assessment Tools for Nursing Homes: Researchers Look to Create Standard Instruments (May 1999)

World Health Organization Publishes New Guide, Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children (May 1999)

Behind Bars: Angola Prison Hospice Offers Care to Dying Inmates (Apr 1999)

Cultural Differences Last a Lifetime: Tailoring End-of-Life Care to A Diverse Population (Mar 1999)

Reforming End-of-Life Care in Nursing Facilities is Critical Issue (Mar 1999)

Jails and Prisons Look to Improve End-of-Life Care: First National Conference Points to Few Successes and Many Challenges (Jan 1999)

Community Coalitions

Oklahoma Conference Highlights State's Efforts to Improve End-of-Life (Jan/Feb 2001)

Resources

& Thou Shalt Honor Spring 2002

Hospital-Hospice Partnerships in Palliative Care: Creating a Continuum of Service Spring 2002

Facing Death, Facing Grief: Teens Healing at Camp Brave Heart (Spring 2002)

Values on Paper (Spring 2002)

What Can You Do By Next Tuesday? Plenty, According to Improving Care for the End of Life: A Sourcebook for Health Care Managers and Clinicians (Sep/Oct 2000)

Bipartisan Interest in Improving End-of-Life Care Hits Home with Moyers On Dying (Sep/Oct 2000)

Still Life in Milford - Poetry from Thomas Lynch, Author of The Undertaking (Aug/Sep 2000)

The Vanishing Line: Physician-Filmmaker Chronicles Her Education (Jun/Jul 1999)

Wit: A Night Of Conversation on How It Could Be (Apr 2000)

Death With Dignity National Center to Open in Washington D.C. (May 1999)

World Health Organization Publishes New Guide, Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children (May 1999)

Bequeathing Your Beliefs: Ethical Wills May Help Leave Blessings, Thoughts, and Hopes (Mar 1999)

Useful Advice for Seriously Ill Patients: Peaceful Dying (Mar 1999)

End-of-Life Care and the Role of Hospital Legal Counsel (Mar 1999)

Columns by Dr. Joanne Lynn

Good News! How Outrage Prompted System Change in Oregon (May/Jun 2001)

Stretching the Limits on Reform Ideas (Mar/Apr 2001)

On the Way to a Good End for the Very Sick and Dying: ABCD Gears Up for Change (Jan/Feb 2001)

Finally, End-of-Life Care Becomes a National Research Priority! (Nov/Dec 2000)

Still Living, After All These Years: What To Do About Nursing Homes (May 2000)

Organizing Care Around the Way Life Is Lived (Apr 2000)

Organizing Excellent Care : Seeing The Care System From The Patient's Vantage (Feb/Mar 2000)

ABCD Cosponsors Two Unique Educational Events This Spring (Jan 2000)

Learning From the Collaboration on Advanced Chronic Heart and Lung Failure (Oct/Nov 1999)

Teaching Professionals about Reform (Aug/Sep 1999)

Beyond Words: Public Policy and the Meaning of "Serious and Complex Illness" (Jun/Jul 1999)

Profits and Patients - Which to Sacrifice? (May 1999)

Crises When the Care System Fails: What Can Advocates Do? (Apr 1999)

Promises, Promises . . . (Mar 1999)

Sometimes, the World Turns a Corner (Feb 1999)

When the Status Quo Fails, Try This: Change (Jan 1999)

Where is the Outrage? Organizations Miss Opportunity to Speak Out Against Kevorkian (Dec 1998)

ABCD Members Make Their Voices Heard (Nov 1998)

A Year of Growth and Challenges (Oct 1998)

"If a Tree Falls...." - The Sound of Suffering In Nursing Homes (Sep 1998)

Lethal Drug Abuse Prevention Act: The fate of HR4006/S2151 (Aug 1998)

How Have We Come So Far in All this Fog? (Jan 1998)

Nature as Choreographer for Death and Dying (Dec 1997)

About ABCD

Updates on ABCD Communications Projects (Spring 2002)

Introducing Board Member Karen Davie (May/Jun 2001)

Welcome To MaryAnn Griffin, New Chief Operating Officer (May/June 2001)

Introducing Board Members Charles P. Sabatino and Michael Werner (Mar/Apr 2001)

Americans for Better Care of the Dying's Accomplishments in 2000 (Nov/Dec 2000)

Spring Events Focus On Public Television Program and Medicare Reimbursement (Jun/Jul 2000)

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