Palliative Care - Methods
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Practice parameter update: The care of the patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: multidisciplinary care, symptom management, and cognitive/behavioral impairment (an evidence-based review): report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology.

11 Oct 2009 OBJECTIVE: To systematically review evidence bearing on the management of patients with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). METHODS: The authors analyzed studies from 1998 to 2007 to update the 1999 practice parameter. Topics covered in this ... Read more...

Locally recurrent rectal cancer in Norway.

29 Sep 2009 BACKGROUND: The purpose of this study was to describe management and outcome in patients with locally recurrent rectal cancer based on data from the Norwegian Colorectal Cancer Registry. METHODS: This was a prospective national cohort study of 577 ... Read more...

Palliation of dyspnoea in advanced COPD: revisiting a role for opioids.

29 Sep 2009 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) will be the third leading cause of death worldwide by 2020. The burdens of this increasingly prevalent illness borne by patients, their family caregivers and the healthcare system are substantial. ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Palliative Care - Methods'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Practice parameter update: The care of the patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: multidisciplinary care, symptom management, and cognitive/behavioral impairment (an evidence-based review): report of the Quality Standards Subcommittee of the American Academy of Neurology. 11 Oct 2009
• [Therapy refractory ascites: insertion of a tunneled long-term peritoneal catheter] 30 Sep 2009
• Proposed FDA rules on painkillers in U.S. Rile cancer community. 29 Sep 2009
• Locally recurrent rectal cancer in Norway. 29 Sep 2009
• Palliation of dyspnoea in advanced COPD: revisiting a role for opioids. 29 Sep 2009
• Palliative treatment of malignant esophagopulmonary fistulas with covered expandable metallic stents. 29 Sep 2009
• Radiotherapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma. 29 Sep 2009
• Advances in diagnosis, treatment and palliation of cholangiocarcinoma: 1990-2009. 12 Sep 2009
• [Terminal phase hydration, pain and delirium] 12 Sep 2009
• [Use of the "Liverpool Care Pathway" in nursing homes] 31 Aug 2009
• Hepaticocholecystoduodenostomy compared with Roux-en-y choledochojejunostomy for decompression of the biliary tract. 30 Aug 2009
• [A clown in a palliative care unit] 30 Aug 2009
• Stopping eating and drinking. 30 Aug 2009
• [Diagnosis and therapy of advanced breast carcinoma: summary of the NICE guidelines] 24 Aug 2009
• Improved oral intake after palliative duodenal stenting for malignant obstruction: a prospective multicenter clinical trial. 23 Aug 2009
• Effects of a palliative care intervention on clinical outcomes in patients with advanced cancer: the Project ENABLE II randomized controlled trial. 17 Aug 2009
• Hypoplastic left heart syndrome. 13 Aug 2009
• [Gastric surgery] 30 Jul 2009
• Malignant fungating wounds: key symptoms and psychosocial issues. 30 Jul 2009
• Evaluating the use of the Cleo 90 infusion set for patients on a palliative care unit. 30 Jul 2009

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Technical information about 'Palliative Care'

Definition: Care alleviating symptoms without curing the underlying disease. (Stedman, 25th ed)

Descriptor UI: D010166

Alternative terms: Palliative Care; Care, Palliative; Therapy, Palliative; Palliative Therapy; Palliative Treatment; Palliative Treatments; Treatment, Palliative; Treatments, Palliative; Palliative Surgery; Surgery, Palliative; Palliative Medicine; Medicine, Palliative;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; utilization; statistics & numerical data; ethics; psychology;

Tree Number: E02.760.666; N02.421.585.666;

History Note: 96; was PALLIATIVE TREATMENT 1964-95 (Prov 1964-65)

Technical Notes: = relief without cure; coord IM with disease /ther or /surg or /drug ther or other specific qualif (IM); consider also PAIN /ther