About Fast Facts and Concepts

Fast Facts are designed to be easily accessible and clinically relevant monographs on palliative care topics. They are designed to be quick teaching tools for bedside rounds, as well as self-study material for health care professional trainees and clinicians who work with patients with life-limiting illnesses.

Fast Facts were started in 2000 by Eric Warm, MD as a teaching tool at the University of Cincinnati and subsequently adopted as a standard feature of the National End-of-Life Residency Education Project (Robert Wood Johnson Foundation).

David Weissman, MD edited Fast Fasts from 2001 until January 2007. Drew Rosielle, MD has edited them since.

Fast Facts and Concepts are published approximately twice a month by the End of Life/Palliative Education Resource Center (EPERC) at the Medical College of Wisconsin. They are also republished in the Journal of Palliative Medicine, at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Site, and elsewhere. Fast Facts are a free educational resource and can be reprinted for non-commercial educational purposes.

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