Machine derived contents note: Preparing Patients for Enf of Life Care -- How to Decide When End of Life Care is Needed: Predicting Prognosis -- How to Help Patients Access End of Life Care -- How to Inform the Patient: Breaking Bad News -- How to Work with an Interdisciplinary Team -- How to Measure Quality of Life near the End of Life -- Common Symptoms at the End of Life -- Pain -- Dyspnea -- Gastrointestinal Symptoms -- Disorders of the Nervous System -- Disorders of the Skin and Mucous Membranes -- Depression and Other common Symptoms Near the End of Life -- The Last Days: The Actively Dying Patient -- Psychosocial and Spiritual Disorders Near the End of Life -- Bereavement -- Ethical Issues and Controversies Near the End of Life -- Advance Directives and the Question of CPR -- Nutritional Support and Parenteral Hydration Near the End of Life -- Diagnostic Studies and Invasive Therapies Near the End of Life -- Physician Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia -- Special Groups -- End of Life Care for Patients with HIV -- Care of the Pediatric Patient Near the End of Life
