Journal of pain & palliative care pharmacotherapy
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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2002
Analgesic issues in palliative care, furthering our understanding of pain, the stability and cost of opioid infusion therapy, and opioid effectiveness doses in nociceptive and neuropathic pain.
Literature relating to analgesic issues, pain mechanisms and management, costs of opioid infusions, and the opioids dosing for nociceptive and neuropathic pain are reviewed in the context of palliative care.
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J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother · Jan 2002
Pain and palliative care in The Cochrane Library; Issue number 4, 2001.
The Cochrane Library of systematic reviews is published quarterly. Nine of the 62 new reviews published in Issue 4 for 2001 in February 2002 are relevant to pain and palliative care. Annotated bibliographies for those nine reviews are provided.
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Palliative care is the care of patients whose disease is incurable and whose life expectancy is limited to weeks or months. This commentary describes the development of modern palliative care, some of the elements and underlying philosophical constructs of such care, and calls for expansion and improvement in end of life care throughout the world.