NEW Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care Released!!

by Christian Sinclair (@ctsinclair)Happy Halloween!Today is the beginning of a new era in palliative care as the4th edition of the Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quality Palliative Care (aka NCP Guidelines) are being released into the wild to begin changing practices all over!Well, that is the plan and the hope, of course. With any sort of guidelines or statement document, the real work comes AFTER they are published.DOWNLOAD THE GUIDELINES TODAY!To be effective, policymakers, front-line clinicians, and healthcare leaders need to make time in their hectic schedules to review these new guidelines, compare what they are doing to what the standards are, and devise a plan to close those gaps. Over the next month in celebration ofNational Hospice and Palliative Care Month and the release of these guidelines, you will see posts on Pallimed andour social media accounts highlighting different aspects of the guidelines with straightforward action steps that you can implement.You may be thinking, " 4th edition? I never even heard of a third edition. What are these guidelines and who is telling me how to do my job? " If so, you should know that these guidelines date back to 2002 whenThe National Consensus Project began. That was a time when palliative care was beginning a rapid period of acceleration but still not widely available nor part of the mainstream of healthcare. The NCP released previous editions in 2004, 2009 and 2013. There is a good chance that some of the things you...
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