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State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research - Research Landscape and Future Directions. J Pain Symptom Manage
State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research - Research Landscape and Future Directions. J Pain Symptom Manage
State of the Science of Spirituality and Palliative Care Research - Research Landscape and Future Directions. J Pain Symptom Manage
3 September 2017
Special Section: Report from a Conference on the State of the Science of Spirituality and
Palliative Care Research
Address correspondence to: Karen E. Steinhauser, PhD, 411 W. Accepted for publication: February 20, 2017.
Chapel Hill Street, Suite 500, Durham, NC 27701, USA.
E-mail: Karen.steinhauser@duke.edu
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and Palliative Medicine. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2017.02.020
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spirituality into palliative care practice, ensuring received support from the Templeton Foundation.
evidence-based approaches to advancing whole- Dr. Steinhauser was supported by the Center of Inno-
person care. vation for Health Services Research in Primary Care
(CIN 13-410), at the Durham VA Medical Center, VA
Mental Health and Chaplaincy Program (XVA 21-150
Disclosures and Acknowledgments VA-DOD Integrated Mental Health Strategy Action
This project was supported in full by a grant from #23), and the Greenwall Foundation. The views herein
the National Palliative Care Research Center are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of
(NPCRC). The authors are grateful for project sup- the funding organizations.
port from the NPCRC. In addition, Dr. Balboni