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Factors
influencing the efficacy of virtual reality distraction analgesia during
postburn physical therapy: preliminary results from 3 ongoing studies |
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Long-term consequences of early
infant injury and trauma upon somatosensory processing |
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Development of hospice and palliative care in the United States |
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Tina’s Ten Points By Tom Krause |
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The role of stressors and coping
strategies in the burnout experienced by hospice workers |
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Benchmarking: a useful tool for
informing and improving care of the dying? |
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Pallimed, November 17, 2007
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Dying a Secular Death; Hospice Documentary; Pal-Pourri |
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Sativex successfully treats
neuropathic pain characterised by allodynia: A randomised, double-blind,
placebo-controlled clinical trial |
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Migraine brains 'are different' |
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Nasal surgery hope for migraine |
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Infants of borderline viability: Ethical and clinical considerations |
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Call for
Proposals - MISS Foundation 2008 Conference
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If you are a professional in the field of grief and
bereavement and would like to present at the 2008 MISS Foundation
Conference - September 25-28, 2008 in Phoenix, Arizona, please
follow the instructions here |
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Story:
Chasing a Rainbow By Terri
Cheney |
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Polyethylene Glycol and Electrolytes
Helpful in Constipated Children |
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Pallimed Collection --
methylphenidate for fatigue, dialysis, staff burn-out, This American
Life
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Last week's This American Life (a public radio program)
was called 'How to Rest in Peace' and included 3 pieces: two about
coming to terms with a parent's death (murder) and which involved an
interview with a man whose mother openly planned her own suicide for 20
years before actually doing it (she was so afraid of a horrible death
'with tubes' etc. that she had meticulously planned a suicide to be
carried out before she got really ill). The first two, although about
murders, were also about grieving, 'closure' (or not), and meaning
making (or not) after a traumatic death - and a lot of it will resonate
with anyone who witnesses grief in their work. The last segment is one
of the few personal narrations I've encountered about what is
essentially an 'assisted suicide' (no physicians were involved) and is
interesting listening. It brings up issues of meaning in decline (or
not), what a good death is, 'controlling death,' and the effects of such
a death on a family (in this case it wasn't necessarily bad). |
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Effects of distraction on pain,
fear, and distress during venous port access and venipuncture in
children and adolescents with cancer |
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Can Coenzyme Q reduce pain? |
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Effect of coenzyme q10 on myopathic
symptoms in patients treated with statins |
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Breakthrough pain in children with
cancer |
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Call for Applications
- CAPC Funding
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Center to Advance Palliative Care & Milbank Foundation
for Rehabilitation will award teams from five academic medical centers
the opportunity to train at a Palliative Care Leadership Centers (PCLC)
site of their choice and receive a full year of mentoring by PCLC expert
faculty. The Milbank Foundation for Rehabilitation is funding this
initiative to enhance palliative care education at medical
school--affiliated teaching hospitals through the development of
clinical palliative care programs.
Training sites for Building Academic Palliative Care are:
* Medical College of Wisconsin (MCW), Milwaukee, WI
* University of California, San Francisco (UCSF)
* Virginia Commonwealth University, Massey Cancer Center,
Richmond, VA |
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The October issue of Academic
Medicine
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A collection of articles on efforts to integrate
complementary and alternative medicine into the medical education
curriculum.
Two of the articles from this issue, as well as this month's editorial,
are available for free to non-subscribers: "What Should Students Learn
about Complementary and Alternative Medicine?" and "Internal Medicine
Resident Perceptions of Optimal Training Duration." |
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Liaison Committee on Medical Education hearing on accreditation
standards relating to diversity |
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Place and provision of palliative
care for children with progressive cancer |
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A Problem of Informing a Juvenile |
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"Your Father Died of a Disease
Called Cancer": Explaining Death to Children |
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Electroacupuncture Attenuates Bone
Cancer Pain and Inhibits Spinal Interleukin-1{beta} Expression in a Rat
Model |
| Distraction Techniques for Pain Control
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The impact of volunteering in
hospice palliative care |
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Continuing the spiritual
transformation of the hospice movement |
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Randomized clinical trial of
nebulized fentanyl citrate versus i.v. fentanyl citrate in children
presenting to the emergency department with acute pain |
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Determinants of child-parent
agreement in quality-of-life reports: a European study of children with
cerebral palsy
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Practice of palliative sedation in
children with brain tumors and sarcomas at the end of life |
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Dignified death for severely
impaired infants: beyond the best-interest standard |
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Pediatric palliative care |
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Acupuncture Roundup
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When newborn babies have to
die...perinatal palliative care? |
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New! CAPC Palliative Care
Discussion Forum
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The CAPCconnectSM palliative care discussion forum is a
free resource for health care professionals who want to share
information, exchange ideas, and get advice from their colleagues on
operational issues affecting their palliative care programs. |
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Static magnets
for reducing pain: systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized
trials |
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Fibromyalgia syndrome in young
children: onset at age 10 years and younger |
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Research Explains Why Painkillers
Don't Work on Fibromyalgia |
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Re-framing
Palliative Care
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The Palliative Care Consult
Team at Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre offers a more active "intent
to treat" outlook for individuals living with advanced illness. |
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Fetal
Concerns Program: A Model for Perinatal Palliative Care
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Advances in fetal diagnostics
have resulted in families facing a pregnancy complicated by a fetal
health concern. Perinatal literature supports that these families
benefit from extensive counseling and education presented by a
multidisciplinary team. In the program described in this article,
perinatal palliative care planning is offered to families who have been
told that their fetus has a potentially lethal prognosis. Called the
"Fetal Concerns Program," it was developed to address the complex needs
of families whose fetus has anomalies. This article reviews perinatal
palliative care concepts and describes the Fetal Concerns Program's
development as a perinatal palliative care service within a broader
program. The special role of the nurse coordinator of the Fetal Concerns
Program is highlighted. |
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Providing
Pediatric Palliative Care
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Duncan, Janet MSN, RN, CPNP;
Spengler, Emily BA; Wolfe, Joanne MD, MPH |
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End-of-life Nursing Education Consortium for Pediatric Palliative care -
Community Health News
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Malloy, P., et al. - Pediatric
nurses must often care for children with life-threatening illness.
Although the child may be a neonate with multiple organ failure, a young
adolescent diagnosed with HIV, or a 7-year-old child involved in a
serious bicycle accident, pediatric nurses are an essential part of the
interdisciplinary team that plans, organizes, implements, and manages
the care of these children and their families. |
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Bridging
the gap: supporting the transition from medical student to practising
doctor--a two-week preparation programme after graduation |
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AAHPM Clinical Scholars Program
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The American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM
or the Academy) announces its selection of eight training sites to host
its Clinical Scholars Program beginning in 2008. This program is
designed to provide a focused clinical experience in hospice and
palliative medicine to physicians. The eight sites were chosen based on
their outstanding reputation, superior service, and well regarded
expertise in the field. For more information please visit
AAHPM
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Pain Knowledge Web Site
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Physician tools include downloadable slides on how to
optimize opioid therapy through rotation, titration, and conversion |
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Hospitals embrace palliative care (JAMA)
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The Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)
published a comprehensive article on palliative care, "Hospitals Embrace
Palliative Care," in its September 19, 2007 issue. The article presents
a clear picture of the rapid growth trend and benefits of palliative
care programs for hospitals and their C-suite leaders. |
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Dr. Elisabeth Kubler-Ross chosen for induction into National Women's
Hall of Fame
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The National Women’s Hall of Fame (NWHOF), in announcing
its 2007 inductees, has included Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross, a crusader
for the rights of the terminally ill, including hospice care, living
wills, and speaking openly about life and death.
“We are thrilled that this tremendous honor will bring attention to my
mother’s life work for many more people throughout the country,” says
Dr. Kübler-Ross’ son Kenneth Ross. Ross founded the
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross Foundation
to build upon her legacy by compassionately confronting death and
inspiring life.
Dr. Elisabeth Kübler-Ross is best known as the person who revolutionized
grief and bereavement attitudes toward dying patients and their families
in the United States. She wrote more than 20 books about death, which
were translated into more than 27 languages, and reveled in breaking
through barriers to bring the concept of “dying with dignity” into
mainstream medicine.
The NWHOF is a national
nonprofit organization that annually recognizes the contributions to
civilization of American women in a variety of disciplines. Since the
founding of NWHOF in 1969, 217 women have been inducted. |
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Audio Conference:
How Will You Balance the Ethical Dilemma of Family Wishes vs. Oath? |
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A reflective model for paediatric
palliative care |
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Reflecting on practice in children's
palliative care |
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FAST FACT &
CONCEPT #183: Conflict Resolution I: Careful Communication |
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FAST FACT AND
CONCEPT #184: Conflict Resolution II: Principled Negotiation |
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Breastfeeding or breastmilk to
alleviate procedural pain in neonates: a systematic review |
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Safety profile of morphine following
surgery in neonates |
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Pediatric Pain Letter -- New August 2007
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Do as I say: curricular discordance
in medical school end-of-life care education |
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Lack of concordance between
physician and patient: reports on end-of-life care discussions |
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Physician cultural sensitivity in
African American advance care planning: a pilot study |
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Medical residents' perspectives on
discussions of advanced directives: can prior experience affect how they
approach patients? |
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POLST.org
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Our goal is to effectively communicate the wishes of
seriously ill patients to have or to limit medical treatment as they
move from one care setting to another.
POLST Paradigm forms are now available in many states and may have a
different name. We use the term POLST Paradigm to describe these
programs in general.
A sample of most website materials are available at no cost to help
facilitate development of other POLST Paradigm programs. There may be a
low cost for larger orders to help cover expenses of a state or regional
program's coordinating center. |
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University of Pittsburgh's Case of Month |
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Jewish Ritual, Reality and Response
at the End of Life - by Rabbi Mark A. Popovsky |
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The George Washington Institute
for Spirituality and Health
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The George Washington Institute for Spirituality and
Health (GWish) is a university-based organization, which is working
toward a more compassionate system of healthcare by restoring the heart
and humanity of medicine through research, education, and policy work
focused on bringing increased attention to the spiritual needs of
patients, families, and the healthcare professionals. |
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Paediatric Pain Fellowship and the Paediatric Palliative Care Fellowship
positions at the Children's Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia (posted July 2007) |
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Heart Song
By Patty Hansen |
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Oscar the cat predicts patients' deaths
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An open mind is required... |
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Tai chi for rheumatoid arthritis:
systematic review |
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Virginia pain doctor sentenced to
nearly 5 years in prison
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A big step backwards or physician error? |
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Yoga for Migraines |
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The impact of the palliative care
mobile team on symptom assessment and medication profiles in patients
admitted to a comprehensive cancer center |
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Eight new articles about migraine
headaches |
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Shifting place of death among
children with complex chronic conditions in the United States, 1989-2003 |
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Pediatric Palliative Care |
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Time(lessness): Buddhist
perspectives and end-of-life |
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Oral Oxymorphone for Pain Management |
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Physician Medical Decision-making at the End of Life in Newborns:
Insight Into Implementation at 2 Dutch Centers |
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A system of electronic records
developed by a children's hospice |
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Patient-Reported Outcomes in
End-of-Life Research in Pediatric Oncology |
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Spirituality training for palliative
care fellows |
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The Placebo:Lying to the
Patient-A Skillful Use of Reassurance and Encouragement? |
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Medical Challenges: Jumping to
Conclusions and Medical Uncertainty |
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Caregivers' responses to pain in
their children in the emergency department |
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Adjunct continuous intravenous
ketamine infusion for postoperative pain relief following posterior
spinal instrumentation for correction of scoliosis: a case report |
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Pediatric patients receiving
palliative care in Canada: results of a multicenter review |
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The Bindler-Ball Healthcare
Model: a new paradigm for health promotion |
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Life sometimes brings tough
situations, but nature can confirm and inspire a sense of hope |
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Updated Bloglines
Palliative Care Feeds |
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Job
Opportunity at the University of California
(posted June 23, 2007) |
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Fellowship Program through UT College of Medicine & Hospice of
Chattanooga (posted 2/25/2007)
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Starting - July 2008, this is a 1 Year Fellowship
Training Program
How to Apply - Send an email to
Gigi Ellis |
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Effectiveness of Massage Therapy
for Chronic, Non-malignant Pain: A Review |
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Hospice chaplain finds peace |
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Methylnaltrexone mechanisms of
action and effects on opioid bowel dysfunction and other opioid
adverse effects |
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The future of acute care and
prevention in headache |
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The patent foramen
ovale-migraine question |
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The patient-physician
relationship in the approach to therapeutic management |
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Migraine and depression |
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Endocannabinoids in Chronic
Migraine: CSF Findings Suggest a System Failure |
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Combining Acupuncture and
Hypnosis |
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Emergency department management
of acute pain episodes in sickle cell disease |
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Relational learning in pediatric
palliative care: transformative education and the culture of
medicine |
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To show our
humanness--relational and communicative competence in pediatric
palliative care |
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Sudden traumatic death in
children: "we did everything, but your child didn't survive" |
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Building a case for neonatal
palliative care |
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Neurophysiology and
neuromodulators |
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Managing the "difficult"
headache patient |
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Newsweek Article About Hospice
Volunteering |
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Venous occlusion with lidocaine
for preventing propofol induced pain. A prospective double-blind
randomized study |
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Home inotropic therapy in
children |
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Home continuous positive
inotropic infusion as a bridge to cardiac transplantation in
patients with end-stage heart failure |
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A prospective study of
continuous intravenous milrinone therapy for status IB patients
awaiting heart transplant at home |
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Comparative costs of home
positive inotropic infusion versus in-hospital care in patients
awaiting cardiac transplantation |
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Home inotropic therapy in
advanced heart failure: cost analysis and clinical outcomes |
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Gym trips
to be prescribed in bid to beat chronic pain |
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Pain assessment in nonverbal children with severe cognitive
impairments: the Individualized Numeric Rating Scale (INRS) |
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June 14,
2007 - Audio Web Seminar - National Hospice and Palliative Care
Organization
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Suicide Assessment and Intervention: With Patients and Families,
with Bereaved Family Members
Presenter: Jack Jordan |
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Fentanyl Buccal Tablet Relieves
Stubborn Neuropathic Pain: Presented at AAN |
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Long-term outcome and clinical
spectrum of 73 pediatric patients with mitochondrial diseases |
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Need for and Use of Family Leave
Among Parents of Children With Special Health Care Needs |
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"Being sick is no fun. But you
can have fun while you’re sick" |
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NCBI to Introduce Changes to the
Entrez System — Beta Version Available for Preview |
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Is stress a trigger factor for
migraine? |
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Pregabalin for peripheral
neuropathic pain: results of a multicenter, non-comparative,
open-label study in Indian patients |
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Clinical Nurse Specialist, Pain Management
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Bowen & Briggs is a nurse-owned, national search firm
specializing in women’s and children’s healthcare. We are assisting
the University of Wisconsin Children’s Hospital (Madison, WI) in
their search for a Clinical Nurse Specialist, Pain Management. |
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Social Workers' Network in Palliative Care ListServe
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This listserv provides an opportunity for Social
Workers in such fields as Oncology, Geriatrics, HIV, Hospice,
Nephrology and Pediatrics to network and discuss multidimensional
aspects and issues related to palliative and end of life care.
If you would like to join, please
send an email
or complete this form.
Terry Altilio, LCSW - 212-844-1467
Sponsored by the Department of Pain Medicine and Palliative
Care - Beth Israel Medical Center |
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"I'm not ready for hospice":
strategies for timely and effective hospice discussions |
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Construction and validation of a
quality of life questionnaire for neuromuscular disease (INQoL)
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Conclusions: The Individualized Neuromuscular Quality
of Life is a validated muscle disease specific measure of quality of
life developed from the experiences of patients with muscle disease
and can be used for individuals or large samples. |
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TheraDoc Acute Pain Management
AssistantTM
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The TheraDoc Acute Pain Management AssistantTM
module is designed to provide physicians with comprehensive,
research-based recommendations and guidelines for the appropriate
treatment of acute pain. |
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Psychosocial resources and
depression among chronically ill young adults: Are males more
vulnerable? |
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Impact on parents when a child
has a progressive, life-threatening illness |
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A National Framework and Preferred Practices for Palliative and
Hospice Care Quality |
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Liaison Committee on
Medical Education (LCME) Adopts New Standards |
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Comparing Hospice and Nonhospice
Patient Survival Among Patients Who Die Within a Three-Year Window |
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At the End of Life, a Racial
Divide |
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Perioperative hypnosis reduces
hospitalization in patients undergoing the Nuss procedure for pectus
excavatum |
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A Systematic Review of
Nonpharmacologic Adjunctive Therapies for Symptom Management in
Children With Cancer |
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Caring for Culturally Diverse
Patients: One Agency's Journey Toward Cultural Competence |
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Spiritual Needs of Persons With Advanced Cancer |
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The New Israeli Law "The Dying
Patient" and Relief of Suffering Units |
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Developing collaborative
person-centred practice: a pilot project on a palliative care unit |
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Pregabalin: A novel
gamma-aminobutyric acid analogue in the treatment of neuropathic
pain, partial-onset seizures, and anxiety disorders |
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Pediatric Consultant in Pain & Palliative Care Employment
Opportunity
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Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota are a
not-for-profit, comprehensive health care provider serving the
diverse needs of children from infancy through adolescence. With 316
staffed hospital beds, we are the sixth largest children's health
care organization in the U.S., with services available in all major
pediatric specialties. |
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Palliative Care -- A Collection
of Information
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HEAL --
Information for Educators
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The Health Education Assets Library (HEAL) is a
digital library that provides freely accessible digital teaching
resources of the highest quality that meet the needs of today's
health sciences educators and learners |
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MedEdPortal
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MedEdPORTAL is a new approach to online publication
that offers peer review for teaching resources. Examples of
MedEdPORTAL publications include referenced tutorials, cases, lab
manuals, evaluation forms, faculty development materials, and
virtual patients |
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Postdoctoral Fellowship Opportunity in Pediatric Pain
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This position will help prepare the fellow for a
clinician-scientist or academic career in pediatric pain. More
information about our research team is available on our site
here |
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Earn
up to 48 CME Credits with UNIPAC |
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Building Academic Palliative Care
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If you are an academic medical center, we can help you
secure your status as a national leader in the field of palliative care.
Building Academic Palliative Care is a new curriculum developed and
taught by three collaborating academic PCLCs - Medical College of
Wisconsin (MCW), University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and
Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU). |
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Stanford University /VA Hospice and Palliative Medicine Fellowship
Program |
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Program provides music during
patients' last hours |
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Palliative care education for
pediatric nurses |
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