Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Safety alerts Dexamethasone 4mg/mL injection changes Dexamethasone injection 4mg/mL (Organon) has been acquired by Aspen pharmaceuticals. They have reformulated the product and it now contains 3.8mg/mL dexamethasone, available as a 1mL vial, which requires storage in a […]
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Psychology and palliative care services working together- on cultivating multi-disciplinary meetings and ensuring compassion in care
by Dr Katherine Regan, Clinical Psychologist, Wales, UK Dr Regan shares her experiences working in close collaboration with a specialist palliative care team at Velindre Cancer Centre in Cardiff, Wales. She discusses why collaborative working across both areas is a useful model for the future and how both fields can learn much from one another. […]
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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 […]
Altmetric and its impact on research articles
by Dr Mark Taubert You may have noticed a small badge at the end of research articles in BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care and other journals’ online publications. This is an Altmetric badge, and it measures an article’s mentions in the social media world, for instance Twitter, Facebook and Google+. But […]
News and updates from www.palliativedrugs.com
Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website. Hot topics Electronic prescribing for controlled drugs – DH consultation The UK Department of Health (DH) has published a consultation document on proposals for electronically prescribing Schedules 2 and 3 CDs in both the NHS and privately. […]
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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 […]
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Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2014 Jul 7;7:CD010943. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010943.pub2. Levetiracetam for neuropathic pain in adults Wiffen PJ, Derry S, Moore RA, Lunn MP. This Cochrane systematic review aimed to evaluate the analgesic efficacy and adverse events of levetiracetam in chronic neuropathic pain using randomised, double-blind studies of greater than two weeks duration. Six studies were […]
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Eur J Oncol Nurs. 2014 Jun 30. pii: S1462-3889(14)00071-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ejon.2014.05.002. [Epub ahead of print] Risk factors for loneliness in patients with cancer: A systematic literature review and meta-analysis Deckx L, van den Akker M, Buntinx F. In this systematic review quantitative studies which assessed severity and risk factors of loneliness using a validated loneliness […]
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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 Ketamine rescheduling consultation Ketamine was classified as a Class B drug, under the Misuse of Drugs Act, on 10 June 2014 in the UK (see our news item 6 June 2014). The promised consultation document, […]