About Reports

IOM reports provide objective and straightforward advice to decision makers and the public. This site includes IOM reports published after 1998. All reports from the IOM and the National Academies, including those published before 1998, are available from the National Academies Press.

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  Improving Palliative Care: We Can Take Better Care of People With Cancer Released: August 19, 2003

  This booklet summarizes the findings and recommendations of Improving Palliative Care for Cancer (2001), for the lay reader.
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  Improving Palliative Care for Cancer Released: June 20, 2003

  When Americans get cancer, and particularly when they die from it, they are likely to be in pain and suffer from a host of other symptoms because the available palliative care is inadequate. The IOM National Cancer Policy Board, in the report Improving Palliative Care for Cancer, examines the barriers - economic, policy, social and scientific - that keep people from getting good palliative care, and proposes a series of steps that could improve this situation.
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  Improving Palliative Care for Cancer: Summary and Recommendations Released: April 4, 2003

  The National Cancer Policy Board undertook this study to identify the barriers and challenges that limit palliative care and to propose solutions. The report identifies the special needs of cancer patients and the importance of the clinical and research establishment involved in cancer care to take a leadership role in modeling the best quality care from diagnosis to death for all Americans.