JAMDA
Volume 8, Issue 3, Supplement 2 , Pages e45-e48 , March 2007

Barriers to the Implementation of Palliative Care in the Nursing Home

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 Financial support was provided by the Health Resources and Services Administration, Administrative Units in Primary Care grant 1D12HP00093, and by the Health Resources and Service Administration, Geriatric Academic Career Award grant 1 K01 HP00105-01. None of the authors had a conflict of interest. The authors thank Patrick Murphy, Jr, MD, for his insight into nursing homes, Johanna Fears for her secretarial assistance, and Maggie Steptoe, MS, MSLS, for her editorial assistance.

PII: S1525-8610(06)00614-1

doi: 10.1016/j.jamda.2006.12.007

JAMDA
Volume 8, Issue 3, Supplement 2 , Pages e45-e48 , March 2007

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