Expanded guidance and practical tools for today’s palliative care professionals.
By Stacie Levine, MD CMD AGSF FAAHPM, and Joe Shega, MD
Elevate your practice and strengthen team resilience with the newly expanded nine-volume Essential Practices in Hospice and Palliative Medicine series. Authored and reviewed by leading experts, this must-have resource delivers concise, actionable tools to optimize care in advanced symptom management, pharmacology, communication, and rapidly evolving practice areas.
Designed to empower every healthcare professional, it brings highly anticipated enhancements across the board, featuring expanded guidance on health equity, social determinants of health, caregiver support, spiritual care, and pediatrics. The updated series tackles pressing issues like substance use disorder, serious mental illness, medical aid in dying, and suicidal ideation, while providing essential therapeutic updates for COPD, heart failure, HIV, dementia, and severe liver or kidney disease. You will have instant access to easy-to-read algorithms, clinical tables including revised opioid conversion protocols, and communication frameworks built on cultural humility.
Whether used individually or as a complete reference library, this refreshed series equips you with the exact tools needed to improve patient outcomes and sustain professional well-being. Browse the collection and pre-order the complete set or individual books.
Stacie Levine, MD CMD AGSF FAAHPM, of the University of Chicago Medicine and Joe Shega, MD, of Vitas Healthcare are the series editors of the sixth edition of Essential Practices in Hospice and Palliative Medicine.