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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 4 September 2003
- ISBN 9780195130652
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 242x164x28 mm
- Weight 844 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Palliative care is rapidly evolving as a multidimensional therapeutic model devoted to improving the quality of life of all patients with life-threatening illness. Research is essential to realize progress in this field. Issues in Palliative Care Research describes the scientific work that has already occurred in the diverse domains relevant to palliative care, and highlights the methodological 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 palliative care research.
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Palliative care is rapidly evolving as a multidimensional therapeutic model devoted to improving the quality of life of all patients with 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 family - these are among the critical issues addressed through palliative 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 methodological 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.
It is a book that should appeal not only to palliative care researchers, but also to palliative care clinicians and advanced palliative care trainees alike. This reviewer will be adding this book to the must read list of readings for his program's palliative care residents (registrars) and fellows.
Table of Contents:
Part I: Pain Research
Methodological issues in the design of analgesic clinical trials
Part II: Research in Anorexia and Gastrointestinal Disorders
Methodological issues regarding cancer anorexia/cachexia trials
Assessment of novel therapies for constipation: focus on opioid analgesics
Measurement of constipation
Clinical trials of antiemetics in the palliative care setting: research issues
Part III: Research in Respiratory Symptoms
Multidimensional assessment of dyspnea
Research into nonpharmacological intervention for respiratory problems in palliative care
Part IV: Research in Fatigue/Asthenia
Studying nonpharmacological interventions for fatigue
Evaluating the relationship of fatigue to depression and anxiety in cancer patients
Fatigue in medical illness: research issues
Methodological considerations in the treatment of fatigue
Part V: Neuropsychiatric and Psychosocial Research
Depression in the terminally ill: prevalence and measurement issues
Issues in measuring family care needs and satisfaction
Part VI: Quality-of-Life Research
Usefulness of utility in making decisions about palliative care
Assessing quality of life in palliative care
Assessing decision-making capacity in the setting of palliative care research
Part VII: Research Issues in End-of-Life Care and Ethical Decision Making
Research in advance care planning
Research to improve end-of-life care in the United States: toward a more Behavioural and ecological paradigm
Studying desire for death: methodological issues in end-of-life research
Part VIII: Research in Practice Change
Changing palliative care practice in academic medical centres
Changing pain management practices in hospitals and cancer centres
Part IX: Research Issues in Special Populations
Current status of symptom measurement in children
Research in paediatric palliative care
Palliative care research in Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency System: clinical trials of symptomatic therapies
