PLoS One. 2015 Mar 10;10(3):e0118971. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118971. eCollection 2015. How could hospitalisations at the end of life have been avoided? A qualitative retrospective study of the perspectives of general practitioners, nurses and family carers De Korte-Verhoef MC, Pasman HR, Schweitzer BP, Francke AL, Onwuteaka-Philipsen BD, Deliens L. This interview based study explored how hospitalisation at […]
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J Pain Symptom Manage. 2014 Nov 14. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.09.013. [Epub ahead of print] Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Trial of Octreotide in Malignant Bowel Obstruction Currow DC, Quinn S, Agar M, Fazekas B, Hardy J, McCaffrey N, Eckermann S, Abernethy AP, Clark K In a double-blind multicentre RCT in Australia, people with advanced cancer presenting with vomiting secondary to inoperable […]
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PLoS One. 2014 Nov 25;9(11):e113188. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113188. eCollection 2014 Palliative Care among Heart Failure Patients in Primary Care: A Comparison to Cancer Patients Using English Family Practice Data Gadoud A, Kane E, Macleod U, Ansell P, Oliver S, Johnson M Using the UK primary care database, Clinical Practice Research Datalink, this study explored if and when […]
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Scand J Prim Health Care. 2014 Dec;32(4):187-92. doi: 10.3109/02813432.2014.972068. Epub 2014 Nov 3 Drug treatment at the end of life: An epidemiologic study in nursing homes Jansen K, Schaufel MA, Ruths S In a cohort study of 524 patients in three Norwegian nursing homes, diagnoses, drug prescriptions and demographic data were collected from electronic records. On […]
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Cancer. 2014 Nov 4. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29097. [Epub ahead of print] The symptom burden of treatment-naive patients with head and neck cancer Hanna EY, Mendoza TR, Rosenthal DI, Gunn GB, Sehra P, Yucel E, Cleeland CS In this retrospective study of 748 patients with head and neck cancer who have not received treatment, symptoms, quality of […]
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Eur J Pain. 2014 Aug 4. doi: 10.1002/ejp.567. [Epub ahead of print] A systematic review of therapeutic interventions to reduce acute and chronic post-surgical pain after amputation, thoracotomy or mastectomy Humble SR, Dalton AJ, Li L In this systematic review of perioperative interventions reducing acute and chronic pain associated with amputation, mastectomy or thoracotomy, 32 […]
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Cancer Med. 2014 Aug 26. doi: 10.1002/cam4.316. [Epub ahead of print] Incidence and risk factors for suicide and attempted suicide following a diagnosis of hematological malignancy Hultcrantz M, Svensson T, Derolf AR, Kristinsson SY, Lindqvist EK, Ekbom A, Granath F, Björkholm M In this Swedish population-based study of nearly 50,000 patients with haematological malignancies and […]
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J Pain Symptom Manage. 2014 Aug 14. pii: S0885-3924(14)00404-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.07.007. [Epub ahead of print] Avoidable and Unavoidable Visits to the Emergency Department Among Patients With Advanced Cancer Receiving Outpatient Palliative Care Delgado-Guay MO, Kim YJ, Shin SH, Chisholm G, Williams J, Allo J, Bruera E Using information from 200 randomly selected advanced cancer patients […]
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Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2014 Jul 24;7:CD010958. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010958.pub2. Topical lidocaine for neuropathic pain in adults Derry S, Wiffen PJ, Moore RA, Quinlan J. In a systematic review of randomised, double-blind studies of at least two weeks’ duration, the analgesic efficacy and adverse effects of topical lidocaine for chronic neuropathic pain was evaluated. 12 studies […]
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J Pain Symptom Manage. 2014 Jun 26. pii: S0885-3924(14)00342-X. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.06.003. [Epub ahead of print] Symptom Prevalence in Lung and Colorectal Cancer Patients Walling AM, Weeks JC, Kahn KL, Tisnado D, Keating NL, Dy SM, Arora NK, Mack JW, Pantoja PM, Malin JL. This United States based study looked at the incidence of symptoms from […]