NIH State-of-the-Science Conference on Improving the End-of-Life Care held at William H. Natcher Conference Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD. on December 6-8, 2004

摘要

The National Institute of Nursing Research (NINR) and the Office of Medical Applications of Research (OMAR) at the National Instututes or Health (NIH) are sponsoring a state-of-the-science conference regarding care at the end of life. The conference will be held on December 6-8, 2004, at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland. Specifically, the conference will address the following key questions: What defines the transition to end of life$ What outcome variables are important indicators of the quality of the end-of-life experience for the dying person and for the surviving loved ones$ What patient, family, and health care system factors are associated with improved or worsened outcomes$ What processes and interventions are associated with improved or worsened outcomes$ and What are future research directions for improving end-of-life care.