Textbook of palliative medicine and supportive care / editado por Eduardo Bruera, Irene J. Higginson, Charles F. von Gunten, Tatsuya Morita

The Development of Hospice and Palliative Care -- Palliative Care as a Public Health Issue -- Palliative Care as a Primary Care Issue -- The Future of Palliative Medicine -- Palliative Care and Supportive Care -- Ethics in the Practice of Palliative Care -- Undergraduate Education in Palliative Medicine -- Graduate Education for Nonspecialists -- Challenges of Research in Palliative and Supportive Medicine -- The Population: Who are the Subjects in Palliative Medicine Research? -- Study Designs in Palliative Medicine -- Outcome Measurement in Palliative Care -- Ethics in Palliative Care Research -- Adoption of Palliative Care: The Engineering of Organizational Change -- Principles of Measuring the Financial Outcomes of Specialist Palliative Care Programs -- Population-Based Needs Assessment for Patients and those Important to them, Such as Families -- Models of Palliative Care Delivery -- Home Palliative Care -- Palliative Care Unit -- Multidimensional Patient Assessment -- Tools For Pain and Symptom Assessment -- Quality of Life Assessment in Palliative Care -- Pathophysiology of Chronic Pain -- Causes and Mechanisms of Pain in Palliative Care Patients -- Opioid Analgesics -- Assessment and Management of Opioid Side Effects -- Adjuvant Analgesic Medications -- Alternative Routes for Systemic Opioid Delivery -- Interventional Pain Procedures in Palliative Care -- Pain Management in Pediatrics -- Integrative Medicine in Supportive and Palliative Care -- End-Stage Congestive Heart Failure -- Geriatric Palliative Care -- Family Caregivers and Cultural Sensitivity --Cardiac and Pulmonary Toxicities of Treatments -- Supportive and Palliative Care for Patients with HIV Infection -- Gonadal Functions and Reproductive Health

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