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Resources for Grief Support Group Leaders
http://astore.amazon.com/growthhouseinc?_encoding=UTF8&node=16
The Growth House bookstore has a selection of professional guides to help you run grief groups. Reprintable handouts and suggested group formats are available in workbook formats for both leaders and participants.
(Posted Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:55:00 GMT)
Advance Directives and Outcomes of Surrogate Decision Making before Death
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/362/13/1211
The New England Journal of Medicine published a study that examined whether patients with advance directives who lacked the capacity to make decisions received their preferred care. Researchers reviewed 3,746 deaths and found that 42.5% of patients needed to make treatment decisions near the end of life. More than 70% of those people lacked the capacity to make choices and the majority, 67.6% had advance directives in place. Those instructions were almost always carried out by decision-making surrogates.
(Posted Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:55:00 GMT)
What Would Don Berwick Do About Delivery System Reform?
http://www.geripal.org/2010/04/what-would-don-berwick-do-obamas-real.html
President Obama’s proposed nomination of Don Berwick to head CMS says a lot about the administration’s overarching plan for delivery system reform.
(Posted Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:55:00 GMT)
New study compares best practice guidelines for end of life care from 34 health organizations
http://growthhouse.typepad.com/les_morgan/2010/02/new-study-compares-best-practice-guidelines-for-endoflife-care-from-34-health-organizations.html
Les Morgan writes on the Growth House blog about a comparative study of palliative care guidelines and official practice statements for end-of-life care provided by over 34 health organizations published in BMC Palliative Care.
(Posted Tuesday, 6 April 2010 18:55:00 GMT)

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