The Institute of Medicine (IOM) ne...

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) newly released a booklet that summarizes the recommendations of the IOM 2001 report "Improving Palliative Care for Cancer." The recent booklet, "Improving Palliative Care: We Can Take Better Care of folks With Cancer," describes the signs of comfort care that should be available for populace dying of cancer, the symptoms of patients with cancer, the special emergencys of children with cancer, reasons for what cause [i]or[/i] reason some people do not come by the care they need, and ways individuals and society can improve access to palliative care. a certain number of of the recommendations include the following: providing better palliative care training for health care professionals; adopting standards for palliative care; improving access to palliative care; and increasing funding for palliative care research and training. The booklet can be viewed online at www.nap.edu/catalog/10790.html.

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