Journal of pain & palliative care pharmacotherapy
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Caring for the Caregiver is information for persons helping to care for people with cancer. The emphasis is on what caregivers can do to help themselves at this stressful time. ⋯ The information is written on a basic level and it is very suitable for health professionals to share with persons helping to care for family members or friends who have cancer. The National Cancer Institute posted this information on its website last June 29.
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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2008
Is the DEA's new "prescription series" regulation balanced?
To address the dual public health imperatives of enhanced pain management and decreased abuse and diversion of prescription medications, the U. S. ⋯ The DEA later explicitly confirmed that they did not intend to impose undue limits on practice. Rather, if implemented appropriately, the new regulation can be considered an important mechanism to control medication diversion while maintaining access for legitimate medical purposes and patient care.
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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2008
Evidence-based pain management and palliative care in Issue One for 2008 of the Cochrane Library.
The Cochrane Library is published quarterly. Issue 1, 2008, contains 3,385 complete reviews, 1,786 protocols for reviews in production, and 7,048 one-page summaries of systematic reviews published in the general medical literature. ⋯ The health technology assessment database contains 7,177 citations. This edition of the Library contains 86 new reviews of which 7 have potential relevance for practitioners in pain and palliative medicine.
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The U. S. ⋯ Only papers published in journals that are indexed in the databases are accessible through electronic literature searches utilizing those databases. Those 19 journals are listed with their NLM abbreviations and their print and electronic ISSNs.
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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2008
Access to pain relief: an essential human right. A report for World Hospice and Palliative Care Day 2007. Help the hospices for the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance.
In observance of World Hospice and Palliative Care Day, October 6, 2007, the Worldwide Palliative Care Alliance developed a comprehensive publication advocating access to pain relief as a basic human right. The British Charity help the Hospices distributed this publication, which describes the current state of pain relief in advanced disease throughout the world, availability and lack of access to opioid analgesics, clinical case examples of how pain can be managed, governmental and private initiatives and barriers to pain relief, and statistics to support the position that pain relief is a basic human right.