{"id":1082,"date":"2015-11-25T14:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-11-25T14:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/?p=1082"},"modified":"2015-10-13T13:53:01","modified_gmt":"2015-10-13T13:53:01","slug":"shortcuts-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2015\/11\/25\/shortcuts-64\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortcuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015 Aug 21. pii: S0885-3924(15)00412-1. doi: 10.1016\/j.jpainsymman.2015.07.014. [Epub ahead of print]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science\/article\/pii\/S0885392415004121\" target=\"_blank\">Benefit of Early Palliative Care Intervention in End-Stage Liver Disease Patients Awaiting Liver Transplantation.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Baumann AJ, Wheeler DS, James M, et al<\/p>\n<p>The effect of early multidisciplinary palliative care on symptom control (using a modified liver-specific Edmonton Symptom Assessment System) and mood (Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale) in patients with end-stage liver disease eligible for liver transplantation was evaluated. 79 patients were referred for liver transplant evaluation, 50 (63%) were eligible, completed the transplant evaluation and had early palliative care input. Of these 29 patients (58%) completed follow-up assessments within six months. Following early palliative care, half of the patients with moderate-to-severe symptoms improved, and 43% had improvement in depressive symptoms (with patients reporting worse symptoms improving the most). This study suggests that there is a possible role for early multidisciplinary palliative care in patients awaiting liver transplantation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Shortcuts are compiled by Jason Boland<!--TrendMD v2.4.8--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>J Pain Symptom Manage. 2015 Aug 21. pii: S0885-3924(15)00412-1. doi: 10.1016\/j.jpainsymman.2015.07.014. [Epub ahead of print] Benefit of Early Palliative Care Intervention in End-Stage Liver Disease Patients Awaiting Liver Transplantation. Baumann AJ, Wheeler DS, James M, et al The effect of early multidisciplinary palliative care on symptom control (using a modified liver-specific Edmonton Symptom Assessment System) [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/2015\/11\/25\/shortcuts-64\/\">Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":275,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1982],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-cuts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/275"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/spcare\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}