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Introduction
Selected Abbreviations
1. WHO Definition of Palliative Care
2. WHO Definition of Palliative Care for Children
3. Definition of palliative care (English): European Association for Palliative care
4. Definition of Hospice and Palliative Medicine – AAHPM
5. EPEC Dimensions of Whole Patient Assessment
6. Perspectives on a Suffering Person
7. National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care (NCF) – National Quality Forum (NQF) Domains:
8. Palliative Care for Advanced Disease (PCAD)
9. Brief Consultation Outline
10. Assessment in Palliative Medicine – Outline
11. Patient-Centered Communication (PCC)
12. SPIKES, NURSE, VALUE, ASCEND, UFO-UFO
13. Communication – Seven Steps
14. Decision-Making Communication Tool
15. Comprehensive Pain Assessment
16. Pain Assessment Observations in Cognitively Impaired
17. Pain Assessment in Critically Ill, Sedated, on Mechanical Ventilation
18. BPI (Brief Pain Inventory)
19. Memorial Pain Assessment Card
20. Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia Scale (PAINAD)
21. PCN Pain Assessment in Patients with Active Cancer
22. PCN Psychological Assessment - Ten Essential Questions
23. PCN Psychologic Distress – Common Areas/clinician response
24. PCN Anticipatory Grief, MDD, PTSD
25. PCN Adjustment Disorder
26. PCN Manic Episode/Hypomaniac Episode (Bipolar I/Bipolar II)
27. PCN Complicated Grief Questionnaire
28. PCN Delerium Definition and Causes
29. PCN SAS RASS
30. Cornell Assessment of Pediatric Delerium
31. Developmental Anchor Points Age 0-2
32. Delerium Observation Screening (DOS) Scale
33. HOPE Mnemonic
34. FICA Mnemonic
35. SPIRIT Mnemonic
36. Cultural Competency and the Role of Race, Ethnicity, and Religion
37. PCN Questions to Assess Spirituality
38. PCN Spirituality (Doctrinal Justification[s] alternative)
39. PCN ESAS (Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale)
40. PCN Mental Status Examination Terms
41. PCN Abbreviated Mental Status Score
42. PCN Short Test of Mental Status (STMS)
43. PCN MMSE Mini-Mental-Status Exam
44. PCN Neuro-Cognitive Behavioral Assessment Terms
45. PCN General Symptom Distress Scale (GSDS)
46. PCN Fall Risk Assessment
47. PCN Functional Activities Questionnaire
48. PCN Spinal Cord Injury Assessment
49. PCN Modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) Dyspnea Scale
50. Activities of Daily Living (ADL)
51. Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG)
52. PCN Function Assessment FAST
53. PCN Function Assessment CDT
54. Function Assessment: Karnofsky Performance Status Score (KPS)
55. Modified Rankin Score (m-R)
56. PCN Glasgow Coma Scale (GCS)
57. Palliative Performance Scale (PPS)
58. Edmonton Frail Scale
59. PCN Malnutrition Categories
60. PCN Cerebral Performance Categories (CPC Scale)
61. PCN Function Assessment Barthel Index
62. Burden of Illness Score (BIS)
63. CARING criteria
64. Charlson Comorbidity Index (CCI)
65. Mortality Risk Index Score (MRIS)
66. Palliative Prognostic Score (PaP): 30-day survival probability
67. Prognostic Index 1-yr Mortality Older Adults (PIMOA)
68. Prognostic Assessment PPS (Palliative Performance Scale)
69. PCN Prognosis Assessment PALIAR
70. Parameters of Prognosis Time Estimate
71. PCN Chemotherapy Response and Survival Data
72. Palliative Prognostic Index (PPI)
73. KPS Mortality Prediction
74. Cancer Presentations with a Median Survival of Six Months or Less
75. Non-Cancer Presentations with a Median Survival of Six Months or Less
76. PCN Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD-CODEX)
77. PCN Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD-BODE)
78. Prognostic Index: Liver Disease
79. PCN Heart Failure Risk Scoring System (HFRSS)
80. Prognosis Assessment: PLAN Clinical Prediction Rule
81. PCN Prognosis Assessment Prolonged Mechanical Ventilation (ProVent score)
82. PCN Intracranial Hemorrhage (ICH Score)
83. PCN Survival Postresuscitation – In-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (CASPRI)
84. PCN Cerebral Performance Category after Resuscitation Attempt (GO-FAR)
85. General End-Stage Disease Guidelines
86. Dementia
87. Liver Disease
88. Neurologic Disease
89. Heart Disease/Cardiovascular
90. HIV/AIDS
91. Pulmonary Disease
92. Renal Failure
93. Stroke and Coma
94. Cancer
95. Syndrome of Imminent Death
96. PCN EOL Management Palliative Sedation
97. PCN SQ Dosing
98. Patient Categories/Hierarchy of Decision-makers
99. Pain Management Guidelines (NCCN)
100. Equianalgesic Opioid Conversion (Miscellaneous)
101. Converting Opioids: Point A to Point B
102. PCN Guidelines for Opioid Rotation
103. PCN Opioid Analgesics and Organ System Dysfunction
104. PCN Opioid Dose Size Availability
105. Opioid Risk Variables / Aberrent Behaviors
106. PCN Urine Drug Testing
107. PCN Methadone Notes
108. PCN Methadone Notes 2
109. PCN Fentanyl (F) Notes
110. PCN Fentanyl Notes 2
111. PCN Aberrant Behavior Risk
112. Categories of Interventions for Cancer Pain
113. Psychoactive Meds
114. PCN Anti-Depressant Agents – Notes
115. Antidepressant Medication Considerations (CoMorbid Neuro/Med and Psych Symptoms)
116. Anti-Anxiety Agents – Notes
117. NSAID Notes
118. PCN Ketamine Notes
119. PCN Malignant Epidural Spinal Cord Compression (MESCC)
120. Nervous System Pathways/Mechanisms/Receptors
121. Correlation of Mechanisms/Receptors with Medications
122. PCN NYHA Heart Failure Classification
123. PCN LVAD Issues to consider
124. Communication Addendum (SDM Model)
125. PCN Spiritual Assessment/Management
126. PCN Capacity Evaluation
127. Pathways to EOL
128. Guidelines for Pediatric EOL Symptom Management
129. Phases of Death
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