50 Studies Every Palliative Doctor Should Know

Section 1: Palliative Care Chapter 1: Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Nathan A. Gray and Thomas W. LeBlanc Chapter 2: Early Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Cancer David Hui Chapter 3: Nurse Led Palliative Care for Advanced Cancer Patients Emily J. Martin and Eric J. Roeland Chapter 4: Benefits of Early Palliative Care to Informal Family Caregivers Emily J. Martin and Eric J. Roeland Chapter 5: The Optimal Delivery of Palliative Care Emily J. Martin and Eric J. Roeland Chapter 6: Availability and Integration of Palliative Care at US Cancer Centers Pedro Pérez-Cruz and Alfredo Rodríguez-Núñez Chapter 7: Cost Savings Associated with Palliative Care Breffni Hannon Chapter 8: Changes in the Last Months of Life Jaclyn Yoong and Fiona Runacres Section 2: Symptom Assessment and Management Chapter 9: The Edmonton Symptom Assessment System (ESAS) Breffni Hannon Chapter 10: Reversibility of Delirium in Palliative Care Tiffany Shaw and Eric Prommer Chapter 11: Multi-Component Intervention to Prevent Delirium in Hospitalized Older Patients Peter Lawlor Chapter 12: Haloperidol, Chlorpromazine, and Lorazepam for Delirium Anna Cecilia Tenorio and Maxine de la Cruz Chapter 13: Decompressive Surgery for Malignant Spinal Cord Compression Esmé Finlay and Diaa Osman Chapter 14: Opioid Rotation for Toxicity Reduction Anna Cecilia Tenorio and Akhila Reddy Chapter 15: Duloxetine for Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Rebecca Burke and Akhila Reddy Chapter 16: Effects of morphine on dyspnea Arif H. Kamal and Jason A. Webb Chapter 17: Palliative Oxygen Versus Room Air for Refractory Dyspnea Jason A. Webb and Arif H. Kamal Chapter 18: Exercise for the management of cancer-related fatigue Lynn A. Flint and Eric Widera Chapter 19: Reduction of Cancer-related Fatigue with Dexamethasone: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial in patients with advanced cancer Chirag A. Patel Chapter 20: Parenteral Hydration in Patients with Advanced Cancer Carlos Eduardo Paiva and Bianca Sakamoto Ribeiro Paiva Chapter 21: Enteral Tube Feeding Dysphagic Stroke Patients Francisco Loaiciga and Rony Dev Chapter 22: Feeding Tube and Survival Among Patients With Severe Cognitive Impairment Claudio Adile Chapter 23: Parenteral nutrition in cancer patients undergoing chemotherapy Francisco Loaiciga and Rony Dev Chapter 24: Docusate and Sennosides for Constipation Shalini Dalal Chapter 25: Treatment of Opioid-Induced Constipation in Advanced Illness Donna S. Zhukovsky Chapter 26: Octreotide for Malignant Bowel Obstruction Shalini Dalal Section 3: Psychosocial Aspects of Care and Communication Chapter 27: Prevalence of mood disorders in patients with cancer Linh Nguyen Chapter 28: Dignity therapy for patients near the end-of-life Marvin Omar Delgado-Guay Chapter 29: Association between spirituality/religiosity and quality of end-of-life care Marvin Omar Delgado-Guay Chapter 30: The Study to Understand Prognoses and Preferences for Outcomes and Risks of Treatments (SUPPORT) Nathan A. Gray and Thomas W. LeBlanc Chapter 31: Doctors' Prognostic Accuracy in Terminally Ill Patients Anjali Desai and Andrew S. Epstein Chapter 32: Prognostic Disclosure to Patients with Advanced Cancer David Hui Chapter 33: Expectations about Effects of Chemotherapy in Patients with Advanced Cancer Rajiv Agarwal and Andrew S. Epstein Chapter 34: Physician Message and Patient's Perception of Compassion Lynn A. Flint and Eric Widera Section 4: End of Life Chapter 35: Association between Advance Directives and Quality of End-of-Life Care Donna S. Zhukovsky Chapter 36: Outcomes Associated with End-of-Life Discussions Masanori Mori Chapter 37: End-of-Life Discussions and Aggressiveness of Care Received Near Death Lori Olson and Christian T. Sinclair Chapter 38: A Communication Intervention in the Intensive Care Unit Lori Olson and Christian T. Sinclair Chapter 39: Clinical Signs of Impending Death in Cancer Patients Masanori Mori Chapter 40: Factors Considered Important at the End of Life Ravi B. Parikh and Oreofe O. Odejide Chapter 41: Quality End-of-Life Care: Patients' Perspectives Jesse A. Soodalter and Yael Schenker Chapter 42: Family Perspectives on Aggressive End-of-Life Care Ravi B. Parikh and Oreofe Odejide Chapter 43: Family Perspectives on End-of-Life Care at the Last Place of Care Esmé Finlay and Erin FitzGerald Chapter 44: Liverpool Care Pathway for Hospitalized Cancer Patients Carlos Eduardo Paiva and André Filipe Junqueira dos Santos Chapter 45: Palliative Sedation Therapy and Survival Joseph Arthur Chapter 46: What Patients and Families Want to Know About Hospice Regina Mackey and Kimberson Tanco Chapter 47: The Impact of Hospice on Mortality of Widowed Spouses Kimberson Tanco and Regina Mackey Chapter 48: Attitudes and Desires of Terminally Ill Patients Regarding Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide Yu Jung Kim Chapter 49: Factors associated with Outcomes of Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Dutt Mehta and Eric Prommer Chapter 50: Influence of Survival Probability on Preference for CPR Christian T. Sinclair and Allison E. Jordan