Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Hot topics Tramadol to be a Schedule 3 CD and temazepam exemptions to be removed The UK government has decided that tramadol will become a Schedule 3 controlled drug (CD) later this year, but will have exemption from […]
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March 2014 J Am Heart Assoc. 2014 Jan 2;3(1):e000544. doi: 10.1161/JAHA.113.000544. “Not the ‘grim reaper service’”: an assessment of provider knowledge, attitudes, and perceptions regarding palliative care referral barriers in heart failure Kavalieratos D, Mitchell EM, Carey TS, Dev S, Biddle AK, Reeve BB, Abernethy AP, Weinberger M To investigate barriers to palliative care […]
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March 2014 J Affect Disord. 2013 Dec 30. [Epub ahead of print] Pre-loss symptoms related to risk of complicated grief in caregivers of terminally ill cancer patients Nanni MG, Biancosino B, Grassi L This study investigated the relationship between pre-loss criteria for complicated grief and post- bereavement diagnosis of complicated grief. This was carried […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Latest additions PCF updated monographs The online Palliative Care Formulary (PCF) is being continually updated. The following monographs have been updated during February 2014 and supersede those in the publication of the 4the dition of the Palliative Care […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Drug updates ACMD recommends reclassifying ketamine The UK Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD) has recommended that ketamine be controlled under the Misuse of Drugs Act 1971 as a Class B substance (currently Class C) […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Hot topics NICE consultation on enhancing the BNF with other prescribing resources: an opportunity to lobby for the Palliative Care Formulary NICE has opened a consultation on the future format of the British National Formulary (BNF) and […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Hot topics New drug driving offence – changes to SPCs and product labelling The UK Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has issued information about changes that will be made to UK SPCs, PILs and product […]
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February 2014 Support Care Cancer. 2013 Dec 21. [Epub ahead of print] Reducing potentially inappropriate medications in palliative cancer patients: evidence to support deprescribing approaches Lindsay J, Dooley M, Martin J, Fay M, Kearney A, Barras M This systematic review using Ovid MEDLINE, PubMed, EMBASE, IPA, and CINAHL evaluates potentially inappropriate medications in […]
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February 2014 J Pain Symptom Manage. 2013 Dec 9. [Epub ahead of print] Primary Thromboprophylaxis in Hospices: The Association Between Risk of Venous Thromboembolism and Development of Symptoms Johnson MJ, McMillan B, Fairhurst C, Gabe R, Ward J, Wiseman J, Pollington B, Noble SI This retrospective case-note study investigated the relationship between risk […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Latest additions Palliativedrugs.com on twitter Follow us @palliativedrugs for information on updates to the on-line PCF, latest additions to the website and news related to drug use in palliative care. PCF updated monographs The online Palliative Care […]