Palliative Care
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Saturday, November 07, 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'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Medical oncologists' experience in attending a funeral and communicating condolences. 24 Oct 2009
• Euthanasia: great heat, little light. 18 Oct 2009
• [Treatment of incurable ill patients at intensive care units] 17 Oct 2009
• Dialysis in frail elders--a role for palliative care. 13 Oct 2009
• Dying from dementia. 13 Oct 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
• [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
• [Impact of the chemotherapy protocols for metastatic breast cancer on the treatment cost and the survival time of 371 patients treated in three hospitals of the Rhone-Alpes region] 29 Sep 2009
• Palliative treatment of malignant esophagopulmonary fistulas with covered expandable metallic stents. 29 Sep 2009
• PET-CT in recurrent head neck cancers: a study to evaluate impact on patient management. 29 Sep 2009
• Radiotherapy in malignant pleural mesothelioma. 29 Sep 2009
• An assessment of the current state of palliative care education in pediatric hematology/oncology fellowship training. 29 Sep 2009
• [Adequate analgesia in the elderly patients. Good pain control cannot be a coincidence] 22 Sep 2009
• Prognostic factors and predictive model in patients with advanced biliary tract adenocarcinoma receiving first-line palliative chemotherapy. 13 Sep 2009
• Last-resort options for palliative sedation. 13 Sep 2009
• Advances in diagnosis, treatment and palliation of cholangiocarcinoma: 1990-2009. 12 Sep 2009
• [Terminal phase hydration, pain and delirium] 12 Sep 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