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NELS ICE is funded by:

CIHR website

 

In partnership with:


CDHA website


IWK website


CCNS website

 


NELS Homepage

The Network of End of Life Studies (NELS) aims to improve end of life care through research development.


Interdisciplinary Capacity Enhancement (ICE) funding from CIHR has enabled research development for vulnerable populations at end of life.



Call for New Investigators

NELS is accepting applications for New Investigator Research Support under the ICE Grant. For more information on requirements, eligibility and application process please click here.

Applications and further questions can be forwarded to nels@dal.ca.



     

Research Updates

What's New?
Co-investigators, Bev Lawson, Fred Burge & Paul McIntyre published in Journal of Palliative Medicine

Palliative care patients in the emergency department
Lawson, B, Burge Fl, McIntyre P, Field S, maxwell D
J Palliat Care 2008; 24:247-255.


Online Presentations

NEW Christine Beck - Improving End of
Life Care in Long Term Care Facilities: Perspectives of Heath Care providers
(with audio)

Heather Castleden - When 'rural' becomes less than 'idyll': Exploring how place, politics and providers influence palliative care service provision in rural and remote communitites in the BC interior (with audio)

Suha Masalmeh - End of Life Caregiving: Literature Review and Framework for Action (with audio)

Alison Zwaagstra - Nova Scotia Death Certificate Data Analysis for Chronic Diseases: NELS ICE Progress and Plans (with audio)

As well as presentations by our Visiting Scholars.

 


Co-investigator, Graeme Rocker, published in Can J Cardiol

Mind the gap: Opportunities for improving end-of-life care for patients with advanced heart failure
PH Strachan, H Ross, GM Rocker, PM Dodek and DK Heyland
C J Cardiol 2009;25.11;635-640

Congratulations Judith Fisher

on being accepted as 1 of 9 fellows in the Pharmaceutical Policy Research Collaboration (PPRC) Fellowship Program.

The PPRC Fellowship Program's objective is to support and encourage students and post-doctoral fellows whose research and careers relate to Canadian pharmaceutical policy.


Supporting Quality Care for the Dying in Long Term Care

Presentation by Visiting Scholar
Dr. Kevin Brazil (with audio)


NELS News Issue 2

featuring the work of Alison Zwaagstra, former NELS ICE Information Analyst is now available. Previous Issues can be found here.


Now Available:

 

End of Life Care in Nova Scotia: Surveillance Report

Listening to Stakeholder's Report: Report of Consultation on “End of Life Care in Nova Scotia Surveillance Report”

      

 
   
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