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Palliative Care Fast Facts and Concepts provides concise, practical, peer-reviewed and evidence-based summaries on key palliative care topics important to clinicians and trainees caring for patients facing serious illness.  They have around 500 topics covered, and they are searchable by keyword.   To navigate this, go to fast facts, then the fast facts directory to be able to search by keyword.

Categories include:

• Age Friendly Care: The Four M's of Geriatric Care
• Communication
• Ethics, Law and Healthcare
• Fast Facts By Health Specialty
• Hospice/End of Life Care
• Palliative Care Teams
• Pediatrics
• Pharmocology
• Prognostication
• Symptoms

About the directory: Fast Facts provides concise, practical, peer-reviewed, and evidence-based summaries on key palliative care topics important to clinicians and trainees caring for patients facing serious illness.  They were started in 2000 by Eric Warm MD as a palliative care teaching tool for generalist clinicians at the University of Cincinnati. They were subsequently adopted as a standard feature of the National End-of-Life Residency Education Project, D Weissman, MD PI, (funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).  Until 2014, Fast Facts published by the End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center (EPERC; now closed) at the Medical College of Wisconsin. Since 2015, PCNOW has hosted Fast Facts and Concepts as part of their mission to promote palliative care education to generalist clinicians.

Citation: Bradley C, Brasel K. Fast Facts and Concepts. Disclosing Medical Error. December 2007. Available at: https://www.mypcnow.org

Keywords: Age friendly care, the four M's of geriatric care, communication, ethics, law and healthcare, hospice, end-of-life care, health specialty, cancer, oncology, hemotology, dermatology, cardiovascular, surgery, emergency medicine, gastrointestinal, neurology, pallative care teams, pediatrics, pharmocology, pain management, prognosis, pain symptoms