Innovations in End-of-Life Care
an international journal of leaders in end-of-life care

Selected articles by contributors to this issue:

Meier DE. Palliative care programs: What, why, and how? Physician Executive. 2001;27(6):43-47.

Meier DE, Back AL, Morrison RS. The inner life of physicians and care of the seriously ill. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2001;286(23):3007-3014.

Meier DE, Morris J, Morrison RS.The Lilian and Benjamin Hertzberg Palliative Care Institute, Mount Sinai School of Medicine. In Pioneer Programs in Palliative Care: Nine Case Studies. Milbank Memorial Fund and The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. New York: Milbank Memorial Fund, 2000, 139-160.

Nierman DM, Schechter CB, Cannon LM, Meier DM. Outcome prediction model for very elderly critically ill patients. Critical Care Medicine. 2001;29(10):2020-2021.

Pan CX, Morrison RS, Meier DE, Natale DK, Goldhirsch SL, Kralovec P, Cassel CK. How prevalent are hospital-based palliative care programs? Status report and future directions. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2001;4(3):315-324.

Twaddle M. The meaning of palliative care for the professional caregiver (commentary). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2002;23(1):57-58.

Twaddle ML. The process of dying and managing the death event. Primary Care. 2001;28(2):329-338.

von Gunten CF, Twaddle ML. Terminal care for noncancer patients. Clinics in Geriatric Medicine. 1996;12(2):349-358.

Other targeted references:

Alliance for Health Reform. How Do We Pay for…Care at the End of Life? Washington, DC: Alliance for Health Reform, 2001. Available at www.allhealth.org/pub/pdf/12_01AHRv6.pdf.

Back AL, Curtis JR. When does primary care turn into palliative care? Western Journal of Medicine. 2001;175:150-151.

Beckwith S. Hospice Without Medicare? Last Acts Newsletter, January 18, 2002. This article can be accessed online at www.lastacts.org/statsite/4117la_eln_newsletter.html

Fins JJ. Vowing to care. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2002;23(1):54-57.

Hospital-Hospice Partnerships in Palliative Care: Creating a Continuum of Service. A joint project of the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization and the Center to Advance Palliative Care. New York: Center to Advance Palliative Care, 2001. Available for download at www.capcmssm.org/content/165/

Beresford L. California initiative aims to enhance palliative care in 40 hospitals. Last Acts Quarterly. 2001;10(Fall):3-4,11.

Bosanquet N, Salisbury C (eds.). Providing a Palliative Care Service Towards an Evidence Base. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1999.

Center for Medicare Education. The Medicare Hospice Benefit. 2001;2(9). Available at www.MedicareEd.org

Focus: Hospice Care—Part I. A Policymaker's Primer on Hospice Care. State Initiatives in End-of-Life Care. 2001;11.

Foley KM, Gelband H (eds.). National Cancer Policy Board of the Institute of Medicine and the National Research Council. Improving Palliative Care for Cancer. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001.

Fox PD, Etheredge L, Jones SB. Addressing the needs of chronically ill persons under Medicare. Health Affairs. 1998;17:144-151.

Friedman BT, Harwood MK, Shields M. Barriers and enablers to hospice referrals: An expert overview. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2002;5(1):73-84.

Heedman PA, Starkhammar H. Patterns of referral to a palliative care unit: An indicator of different attitudes toward the dying patient? Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2002;5(1):101-106.

Hopper SS. Building Hospital Palliative Care Programs: Lessons from the Field. New York: United Hospital Fund, 2001. Executive summary, table of contents, and ordering information available at www.uhfnyc.org/

Hughes R, Higginson, IJ, Addington-Hall J, Aspinal F, Thompson M, Dunckley M. Project to Improve Management of Terminal Illness (PROMOTE). Journal of Interprofessional Care. 2001;15(4):398-399.

Iglehart JK. The centers for Medicare and Medicaid services. New England Journal of Medicine. 2001;34(5):1920-1924.

Kapp MB. Economic influences on end-of-life care: Empirical evidence and ethical speculation. Death Studies. 2001;25(3):251-263.

Lubitz JD, Riley GF. Trends in Medicare payments in the last year of life. New England Journal of Medicine. 1993;328:1092-1096.

Lynn J. Learning to care for people with chronic illness facing the end of life. Journal of the American Medical Association. 2000;284(19):2508-2511.

Lynn J. Improving care for patients approaching the end-of-life with advanced CHF and COPD. Veterans Health Systems Journal. 2000;5(suppl):4.

Lynn J. Reforming the care system to support those coming to the end of life. Cancer Control: Journal of the Moffitt Cancer Center. 1999;6(2):131-135.

Lynn J, Wilkinson AM. Quality end of life care: The case for a MediCaring demonstration. Hospice Journal. 1998;13(1/2):151-163.

Lynn J, Wilkinson A, Etheredge L. Financing of care for fatal chronic disease: Opportunities for Medicare reform. Western Journal of Medicine. 2001;175:299-302.

MacDonald N. Palliative care and primary care (commentary). Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2002;23(1):58-59.

Myers S. Hospice of Lancaster County: Increasing access and reducing barriers to care in Pennsylvania community. ABCD Exchange. September-October 2001, www.abcd-caring.org/newsletter.htm

Ogle KS, Mavis B, Wyatt GK. Physicians and hospice care: Attitudes, knowledge, and referrals. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2002;5(1):85-92.

Santa-Emma PH, Roach R, Gill MA, Spayde P, Taylor RM. Development and implementation of an inpatient acute palliative care service. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2002;5(1):93-100.

Sherman DW. End-of-life care: Challenges and opportunities for health care professionals. Hospice Journal. 1999;14(3-4):109-121.

Solomon MZ, Romer AL, Sellers D, Jennings B, Miles S, and the National Task Force on End-of-Life Care in Managed Care. Meeting the Challenge: Twelve Recommendations for Improving End-of-Life Care in Managed Care. Newton, MA: Education Development Center, Inc., 1999.

Spillman BC, Lubitz J. The effect of longevity on spending for acute and long-term care. New England Journal of Medicine. 2000;342:1409-1415.

Virik K, Glare P. Profile and evaluation of a palliative medicine consultation service within a tertiary teaching hospital in Sydney, Australia. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 2002;23(1):17-25.

von Gunten CF, Ferris FD, D’Antuono R, Emanuel LE. Recommendations to improve end-of-life care through regulatory change in US health care financing. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 2002;5(1):35-41.

For more on this topic, see this entire back issue, including its Read More page "Working Toward an Integrated Model of Palliative Care" in the Archives of Innovations in End-of-Life Care. 1999;1(5).