Issues in Palliative Care Research (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Portenoy, Russell K.; Bruera, Eduardo

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Palliative care is rapidly evolving as a multidimensional therapeutic model devoted to improving the quality of life of all patientswith life-threatening illness. Symptom control, management of psychosocial and spiritual concerns, decision making consistent with values and goals, and care of the imminently dying that is appropriate and sensitive to the unique needs of the individual and the family--these are among the critical issues addressed through pallaitive care. As this discipline has evolved, the need for research in all these areas has become widely acknowledged. Issues in Palliative Care Research describes both the progress that already has been made in the investigation of these issues and the methodologic elements that must be addressed in future studies. The perspective is broad and the overriding goal is to inform about the state of the art in these rapidly evolving areas of research.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780199747818
• Artikelnr.: 54563025

Autorenporträt

Portenoy, Russell K. (Chairman, Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center, New York, USA) / Bruera, Eduardo

Inhaltsangabe

* Part I: Pain Research
* 1: Methodological issues in the design of analgesic clinical trials
* Part II: Research in Anorexia and Gastrointestinal Disorders
* 2: Methodological issues regarding cancer anorexia/cachexia trials
* 3: Assessment of novel therapies for constipation: focus on opioid
analgesics
* 4: Measurement of constipation
* 5: Clinical trials of antiemetics in the palliative care setting:
research issues
* Part III: Research in Respiratory Symptoms
* 6: Multidimensional assessment of dyspnea
* 7: Research into nonpharmacological intervention for respiratory
problems in palliative care
* Part IV: Research in Fatigue/Asthenia
* 8: Studying nonpharmacological interventions for fatigue
* 9: Evaluating the relationship of fatigue to depression and anxiety
in cancer patients
* 10: Fatigue in medical illness: research issues
* 11: Methodological considerations in the treatment of fatigue
* Part V: Neuropsychiatric and Psychosocial Research
* 12: Depression in the terminally ill: prevalence and measurement
issues
* 13: Issues in measuring family care needs and satisfaction
* Part VI: Quality-of-Life Research
* 14: Usefulness of utility in making decisions about palliative care
* 15: Assessing quality of life in palliative care
* 16: Assessing decision-making capacity in the setting of palliative
care research
* Part VII: Research Issues in End-of-Life Care and Ethical Decision
Making
* 17: Research in advance care planning
* 18: Research to improve end-of-life care in the United States: toward
a more Behavioural and ecological paradigm
* 19: Studying desire for death: methodological issues in end-of-life
research
* Part VIII: Research in Practice Change
* 20: Changing palliative care practice in academic medical centres
* 21: Changing pain management practices in hospitals and cancer
centres
* Part IX: Research Issues in Special Populations
* 22: Current status of symptom measurement in children
* 23: Research in paediatric palliative care
* 24: Palliative care research in Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired
Immunodeficiency System: clinical trials of symptomatic therapies