Hospice -- Palliative care -- Emerging complexities in pediatric palliative care -- Patient-centered ethos in an era of cost control : palliative care and healthcare reform -- Palliative care, ethics, and interprofessional teams -- Pain relief and palliative care -- Management of dyspnea -- Diagnosis and treatment of delirium -- Psychosocial and psychiatric suffering -- Capacity and shared decision making in serious illness -- Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatments -- Medical futility : content in the context of care -- Palliative sedation -- Voluntarily stopping eating and drinking -- Physician-assisted death -- Lessons from legalized physician-assisted death in Oregon and Washington -- Physician-assisted death in Western Europe : the legal and empirical situation.
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