• Hospice and Palliative Care: Ethical Marketing Practices (June 2011)

• NHPCO Ethical Marketing Practices Presentation (PowerPoint Presentation, May 2012)

• Artificial Nutrition and Hydration Narrative and Statement (PDF) Revised statement from NHPCO board issued September 2010.

• NHPCO Position Statement and Commentary on the Use of Palliative Sedation in Imminently Dying Terminally Ill Patients - (May 2010)

• NHPCO Palliative Sedation in Hospice and Palliative Care (PowerPoint Presentation, July 2012)

• Position Statement and Call to Action on Access to Palliative Care in Critical Care Settings (PDF)

• The Care of Hospice Patients with Automatic Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillators (PDF)

• Physician Assisted Suicide Narrative and Resolution (PDF)

• NHPCO Code of Ethics (PDF)

Hospice Philosophy and Ethical Statements from NHPCO:

• NHPCO's Ethical Principles: These ethical principles should be upheld by all hospice and palliative care providers.
• Preamble to Standards of Practice: This statement was originally published in the 2000 edition of NHPCO’s Hospice Standards of Practice.
• Hospice Philosophy Statement: Originally published in NHPCO’s Hospice Standards of Practice (2000).
• For a comprehensive review of ethical principles, providers are encouraged to order a copy of NHPCO's publication, Ethical Principals: Guidelines for hospice and Palliative Care Clinical and Organizational Conduct .