Santosh K Chaturvedi
Santosh K Chaturvedi
Research in palliative care has its challenges. However, research in different aspects of palliative care is important. This paper gives simple methods of planning and conducting a research in the area of palliative care in India. ...
Bert Broeckaert
Bert Broeckaert
This paper shows how palliative care developed as a reaction to the compartimentalized technical approach of modern medicine. But what does it mean if we say palliative care wants to treat patients as whole persons? A few pitfalls need to a...
Agar Meera
Agar Meera
Opioids are extremely effective in managing cancer pain, and now are utilized for longer periods of time in cancer patients as the treatment for malignancies has become more successful.[1] The goals in cancer pain treatment includes maintai...
Networking and training in palliative care: challenging values and changing practice [0.03%]
缓和医疗中的网络构建与培训：挑战观念和改变实践
Mhoira Ef Leng
Mhoira Ef Leng
What make a good doctor is a question posed by the public and profession and is key when designing training programmes. The goal of training is to change practice not simply acquire knowledge yet too often curriculums and assessment focuses...
Katrina Breaden
Katrina Breaden
Breathlessness is a frightening symptom to both witness and experience. It is common in many conditions, especially in the palliative setting, profoundly affecting the quality of the person's life. The purpose of this article is to provide ...
Max Watson
Max Watson
The importance of effectively managing breakthrough pain for patients on long term background analgesia has recently lead to the development of a range of new products aimed at filling this need. This review article looks at the reasons beh...
Katrina Breaden
Katrina Breaden
Palliative care is a growing area of practice throughout the world and its promotion relies on adequately trained health care professionals. However, there are only a limited number of postgraduate academic courses or clinical training oppo...
Kishore Rao,Nagesh Simha
Kishore Rao
This article is a story of networking of palliative care at the corporate level. This gives an insight that if you have will and dedication then you can imagine and make it true that networking can start even before the birth of an organiza...
Svs Deo
Svs Deo
In the era of evidence based medicine documentation of clinical data is extremely important. The field of Health informatics is a discipline at the intersection of information science, computer science and health science. Current health inf...
Odette Spruyt
Odette Spruyt
"If you want to travel quickly, go alone. But if you want to travel far, you must go together". African proverb. The delivery of palliative care is often complex and always involves a group of people, the team, gathered around the patient a...