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	Sue Ryder Care URL: http://www.suerydercare.org ODP description: UK palliative care charity with seven hospices, which provide pain control, respite care and day care for people with serious and terminal conditions. Page description: Sue Ryder Care is all about people...Sue Ryder Care exists to relieve human suffering, to empower those most in need of our services and to help their families overcome the challenges they face. sue ryder,sue ryder care, care, neurological,charity,palliative,hospice,motor neurone, fundraising, home care, cancer, respite,voluntary, elderly residential homes
	Cochrane Pain, Palliative Care and Supportive Care Group URL: http://www.medicine.ox.ac.uk/cochrane/ ODP description: Information on this research review group, a member of the international Cochrane Collaboration, dedicated to providing systematic reviews of published evidence in the field of palliative care. Page title: PaPaS Collaborative Review Group
	Saint Joseph's Hospital - PalliativeProgram URL: http://www.stjosephs-marshfield.org/palliative_care/ ODP description: Information about palliative care and this multidisciplinary team of palliative care providers. Page title: Ministry Health Care Page description: Description
	Centre for Bioethics - Journal of Palliative Care URL: http://www.ircm.qc.ca/bioethique/english/publications/journal_of_palliative_care.html ODP description: A Canadian-based, peer-reviewed, international and interdisciplinary forum for practical, critical thought on palliative care and palliative medicine. Page title: Centre for Bioethics [Publications]
	Texas Academy of Palliative Medicine URL: http://www.tapm.org ODP description: Developed for palliative care physicians in Texas, containing details of meetings and useful online resources. Page title: . Texas Academy of Palliative Medicine
	End of Life Physician Education Resource Center (EPERC) URL: http://www.eperc.mcw.edu/ ODP description: Training material and informational repository for physicians who educate about end of life (EOL) issues. Page title: EPERC - Advancing End of Life Care Through an Online Community of Educational Scholars Page description: EPERC is the medical educator resource for peer-reviewed end of life teaching materials. Also search for recommended books and articles, upcoming conferences, training and funding opportunities.
	Center to Advance Palliative Care URL: http://www.capc.org/ ODP description: Promotes wider access to palliative care in hospitals and health systems throughout the United States. Page title: Palliative Care - Center to Advance Palliative Care
	General Practice Notebook - Palliative care URL: http://www.gpnotebook.co.uk/simplepage.cfm?ID=1060438084 ODP description: Coverage of this medical speciality. Page title: palliative care - General Practice Notebook
	The Temmy Latner Centre for Palliative Care URL: http://www.mtsinai.on.ca/palliativecare/ ODP description: A center located at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital answers questions about palliative care. Page title: New Page 1
	End-of-Life Care Eases Pain and Prepares Patient for Death URL: http://healthlink.mcw.edu/article/1001710698.html ODP description: Article on palliative care. Page description: Palliative care programs are designed to care for patients as they near the end of their life and is designed to treat the whole person, based on meetings or consultation with the patient and his or her family.
	HMS Center for Palliative Care URL: http://www.hms.harvard.edu/cdi/pallcare/ ODP description: Programs offered at Harvard Medical School for healthcare professionals. Located in Boston, Mass. Page title: HMS Center for Palliative Page description: The Harvard Medical School Center for Palliative Care aims to be a national resource in education and clinical activities in end-of-life care.
	THe EPEC Project (Education on Palliative and End-of-life-Care) URL: http://www.epec.net/ ODP description: Offers continuing medical education conferences, distance learning, educational materials and consulting.
	Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care URL: http://stoppain.org ODP description: Consumer and professional health education on the treatment of chronic pain as well as on comfort or palliative care for those with long-term illness. Beth Israel Medical Center, New York. Page title: StopPain.org Page description: Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, NY
	Pioneer Programs in Palliative Care: Nine Case Studies URL: http://www.milbank.org/pppc/0011pppc.html ODP description: In this report clinicians at nine hospitals describe the establishment of formal programs of palliative care.
	Supportive Care of the Dying: A Coalition for Compassionate Care URL: http://www.careofdying.org/ ODP description: Tools, resources, and a quarterly newsletter for health care professionals providing end-of-life care. Page title: Supportive Care Coalition Home Page
	VA Faculty Leader Project URL: http://www1.va.gov/geriatricsshg/page.cfm?pg=65 ODP description: The development of a benchmark curricula for end-of-life and palliative care for training resident physicians from the Department of Veterans Affairs. Page title: Hospice and Palliative Care - Office of Geriatrics and Extended Care Page description: Description for Hospice and Palliative Care and all of the services offered
	Innovations in End-of-Life Care URL: http://www.edc.org/lastacts/ ODP description: This on-line journal features peer-reviewed examples of promising practices in end-of-life care. Page title: Innovations in End-of-Life Care: Palliative Practices/Tools. Page description: Journal promoting innovative practices in palliative care for health care professionals caring for dying patients. Current Issue: Designing Postgraduate Training in Palliative Care.
	M. D. Anderson Cancer Center - Symptom Control and Palliative Care URL: http://www.mdanderson.org/departments/palliative/ ODP description: A resource for clinical information, education, research and academic training in palliative care. Page title: Palliative Care & Rehabilitation Medicine - M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
	Promoting Excellence in End-of-Life Care URL: http://www.promotingexcellence.org/ ODP description: US organization dedicated to improving healthcare for dying persons and their families through demonstration projects addressing particular challenges to existing models of hospice and palliative care. Page title: Home - Promoting Excellence Page description: Promoting Excellence
	Dying Well URL: http://www.dyingwell.com/ ODP description: The president of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, Dr. Ira Byock, provides excerpts from his book about resources for patients and families facing life-limiting illness. Page title: Dying Well, Defining Wellness through the End of Life, Dr. Ira Byock