title: PATHWAYS to improve end-of-life care--a community approach.
abstract: Midwest Bioethics Center responded to the SUPPORT study with a strategic initiative called PATHWAYS to Improve End-of-Life Care: A Community Approach. This article introduces that initiative and reviews its substantial contributions in the broad sense. The effects of this program, although its evaluation has yet to be completed, are far-reaching because PATHWAYS tackled the problem of dying, not as a medical problem, but as a problem for the community as a whole.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Christopher
mesh_terms: D003153:Community Health Services / Q000458:organization & administration; D003159:Community-Institutional Relations; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006801:Humans; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D007615:Kansas; D008923:Missouri; D010166:Palliative Care; D015397:Program Evaluation; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013727:Terminal Care / Q000592:standards*