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Renal failure

BC Provincial Renal Agency: Conservative Care Pathway Care provided in the Kidney Care Clinics (KCC) can be thought of in 5 phases. Phases 1a and 1b are similar for all patients...

Best Practices in Palliative Care for Patients with End Stage Renal Disease: With Recommendations for the Nova Scotia Renal Program After examining best practices in renal palliative care across jurisdictions, this report provides four broad recommendations.

End-of-Life Framework: Recommendations for a Provincial EOL Care Strategy "The need for end-of-life (EOL) care strategies is also being triggered by advances in dialysis that make it increasingly...

Marie Curie: Palliative Care Knowledge Zone This area of the website offers a range of information on palliative, end of life care to support and inform the clinical...

Ontario Renal Network Palliative Care Report: Recommendations towards an approach for chronic kidney disease 2016-2019: Ontario Renal Network Palliative Care Report: Recommendations towards an approach for chronic kidney disease The...

The Palliative Approach for Advanced Kidney Disease in Long Term Care This pamphlet was made to help persons with Advanced Kidney Disease and their families know what to expect at the end of...

Palliative Care for Non-Cancer Patients Comprehensive coverage on the current knowledge of the needs of, and appropriate care for, people dying from causes other...

Recommendations to Support End-Stage Kidney Disease Patients in Their Last Days to Hours of Life The BC Renal Agency has released a new resource that provides practical recommendations for health care providers supporting...

Symptom management in end stage kidney disease In this video, Dr Frank Brennan introduces common symptoms and clinical guidelines for dialysis and non-dialysis management...

Hospice and Palliative Medicine Questions This video series, Hospice and Palliative Medicine Questions (HPMQ), answers tough questions you may come across while caring...

Dying at home

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Evidence databases

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Health care directives / Living wills - see Advanced care planning

Hospice and palliative care

Indigenous people

Interdisciplinary practice

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Long term care