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ONS How to Have Difficult Conversations With Patients, Families When having difficult conversations with patients and families, it is important to be present, to be honest, and to listen.
Medscape Medical News, May 9, 2012
AGS Marriage, Urban Living, Comorbidities and Hospice Referral People are at highest risk for a referral to a hospice if they are married, live in a large metropolitan area, or have comorbidities.
Medscape Medical News, May 8, 2012

Depression: Treat It Fast When Time Is Short Dr. Scott Irwin of IPM offers a detailed plan for managing depression when there is not a lot of time left.
The Institute for Palliative Medicine, May 31, 2012
Communication With Patients Facing Serious Illness How do you get grieving family members to open up?
Medscape Nurses, March 30, 2012

The Limits of Life
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, May 18, 2012
End-of-Life Preferences of Elderly Patients With Chronic HF
European Heart Journal, April 26, 2012
Community Based HF Patients in the Last Year of Life
Heart, April 23, 2012
Palliative Sedation
Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing, March 28, 2012
Care Near Life's End: Findings From a Lung Cancer Study
Journal Watch, March 23, 2012