Pain and palliative care pharmacotherapy literature summaries and analyses

Amy P. Abernethy; Donna Zhukovsky

doi:10.3109/15360288.2011.650355

Pain and palliative care pharmacotherapy literature summaries and analyses

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Abstract

Timely and important studies are reviewed and commentaries provided by leading palliative care clinicians. Symptoms, interventions, and treatment-related adverse events addressed in this issue are optimizing buprenorphine antinociception with the addition of naltrexone; reliably assessing the internal state of persons with cognitive impairment, for the purpose of measuring perception of their sense of purpose; improving understanding of prognosis over time by means of early palliative care intervention in patients with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC); and examining reasons for cancer patients' emergency department (ED) visits and outcomes of the visits.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	51-54
Number of pages	4
Journal	Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy
Volume	26
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3109/15360288.2011.650355
State	Published - Mar 7 2012

Keywords

ED utilization
NSCLC
buprenorphene
cancer center
dementia
emergency department
naltrexone
palliative care
prognosis
purpose
well-being

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Anesthesiology and Pain Medicine
Pharmacology (medical)

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