• Geriatrics · Aug 2009

    Review

    Evidence-based review of interventions to improve palliation of pain, dyspnea, depression.

    • Fatima Naqvi, Frank Cervo, and Suzanne Fields.
    • State University of New York Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York, USA.
    • Geriatrics. 2009 Aug 1;64(8):8-10, 12-4.

    AbstractThis review of the guideline developed by the Clinical Efficacy Subcommittee of the American College of Physicians and the accompanying systematic review offers clinicians evidence-based recommendations for palliative care. Seriously ill patients should be assessed for pain, dyspnea, and depression. Clinicians should use therapies of proven effectiveness to manage pain, depression, and dyspnea, including opioids in patients with unrelieved dyspnea and oxygen for short-term relief of hypoxemia. Clinicians should ensure that advance care planning, including completion of advance directives, occurs.

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