Journal of pain and symptom management
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Oct 2024
Letter Case ReportsAcute Urinary Frequency in a Cancer Patient on Olanzapine.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Oct 2024
Retraction Of PublicationOpportunities to Improve End-of-Life Care Quality among Patients with Short Terminal Admissions.
Little is known about Veterans who die during a short terminal admission, which renders them ineligible for the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Bereaved Family Survey. ⋯ Veterans with short terminal admissions are less likely to receive hospice or palliative care compared to patients with long terminal admissions. Many patients with short terminal admissions, such as those with life-limiting conditions (especially cancer), receive aspects of high-quality EOL care, however, opportunities for improvement exist.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Sep 2024
ReviewHidden From Sight-From the Closet to the Paywall: A Rapid Evaluation of Restricted and Monetized Access to LGBTQ+ Inclusive Palliative, End-of-Life, and Bereavement Care Research.
LGBTQ+ people experience higher burdens of life-limiting illnesses, poorer health outcomes, and multilevel barriers to accessing palliative, end-of-life, and bereavement care. High quality evidence is needed to inform interventions to address these inequities, and inform inclusive practices and policies. Despite global initiatives to improve availability of peer-reviewed journal articles, the minority of research is open access (OA). We aimed to evaluate accessibility of literature related to LGBTQ+ inclusive palliative, end-of-life, and bereavement care. ⋯ Health and social care professionals and policy makers rely on access to high quality evidence to inform their work. Failing to make articles related to the needs of LGBTQ+ people and populations OA risks further marginalisation and worsened inequities. Innovative journal policies and funding are needed to enable access, particularly for research that foregrounds the needs of marginalised communities. Where articles are currently behind paywalls, there is a need for accessible summaries or policy briefs to inform inclusive policy and practice.
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J Pain Symptom Manage · Sep 2024
Trajectories of Opioid Use Before and After Cancer Diagnosis: A Population-Based Cohort Study.
Opioid use prior to cancer diagnosis increases the likelihood of long-term use during survivorship, however, patterns of use before and after diagnosis are not understood. ⋯ There is considerable heterogeneity in opioid use before and after cancer diagnosis. Our findings suggest noncancer factors drive a significant proportion of postdiagnosis opioid use, but use increased significantly from the month of cancer diagnosis and never returned to prediagnosis levels.