@article{c21010aff8464919b3e4ca95476f801a,
title = "Blueprint for success: Translating innovations from the field of palliative medicine to the medical-legal partnership",
author = "Lynn Hallarman and Denise Snow and Manasi Kapoor and Carrie Brown and Kerry Rodabaugh and Ellen Lawton",
note = "Funding Information: In the 1990s, palliative care emerged as a distinct field of medicine with: the formation of national organizations, such as the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine; development of a national certification exam; and expansion of educational initiatives. At the same time, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation established the Last Acts Institute and the Project on Death in America, with the goal of improving end-of-life care in the United States.15 The Robert Wood Johnson initiative, combined with sentinel reports from the Institute of Medicine and the National Institute of Health promoting palliative care, helped support leadership development and groundbreaking research that would come to fruition in the early 2000s.16 A key turning point for palliative care occurred in 2002, when the Veterans Administration (VA) embraced the national expansion of palliative care consultation teams in all VA facilities, making the VA the first healthcare system in the United States to formalize palliative care consultation on a systems level.17 In 2006, hospice and palliative medicine were formally recognized by the American Board of Medical Subspecialties (ABMS) and the Accreditation Council for Graduate",
year = "2014",
month = jan,
day = "2",
doi = "10.1080/01947648.2014.885330",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "35",
pages = "179--194",
journal = "Journal of Legal Medicine",
issn = "0194-7648",
publisher = "Taylor and Francis Ltd.",
number = "1",
}