Acta Oncol. 2014 Oct 7:1-7. A prospective analysis on fatigue and experienced burden in informal caregivers of cancer patients during cancer treatment in the palliative phase Peters ME, Goedendorp MM, Verhagen SA, Smilde TJ, Bleijenberg G, van der Graaf WT. Patients on palliative oncological treatment and their carers completed the Checklist Individual Strength questionnaire to […]
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Palliat Med. 2015 Feb;29(2):120-7. Change in physiological variables in the last 2 weeks of life: An observational study of hospital in-patients with cancer Taylor P, Crouch S, Howell DA, Dowding DW, Johnson MJ. In a single centre retrospective cohort study of 102 terminally ill patients with cancer who died in hospital routinely measured parameters and […]
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Support Care Cancer. 2015 Mar 6. Exercise compliance among patients with multiple myeloma undergoing chemotherapy: a retrospective study Shallwani S, Dalzell MA, Sateren W, O’Brien S. This is a retrospective chart review study of 41 adult patients with multiple myeloma undergoing chemotherapy and rehabilitation. Exercise compliance at follow-up (at about 6 weeks after the initial […]
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Clin Nutr. 2014 Sep 27. pii: S0261-5614(14)00238-6. doi: 10.1016/j.clnu.2014.09.010. [Epub ahead of print] A systematic review with meta-analysis of survival, quality of life and cost-effectiveness of home parenteral nutrition in patients with inoperable malignant bowel obstruction Naghibi M, Smith TR, Elia M. A systematic review and meta-analysis assessed length of survival and quality of life […]
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PLoS One. 2015 Mar 10;10(3):e0118971. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0118971. eCollection 2015. How could hospitalisations at the end of life have been avoided? A qualitative retrospective study of the perspectives of general practitioners, nurses and family carers De Korte-Verhoef MC, Pasman HR, Schweitzer BP, Francke AL, Onwuteaka-Philipsen BD, Deliens L. This interview based study explored how hospitalisation at […]
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J Pain Symptom Manage. 2014 Nov 14. doi: 10.1016/j.jpainsymman.2014.09.013. [Epub ahead of print] Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled, Randomized Trial of Octreotide in Malignant Bowel Obstruction Currow DC, Quinn S, Agar M, Fazekas B, Hardy J, McCaffrey N, Eckermann S, Abernethy AP, Clark K In a double-blind multicentre RCT in Australia, people with advanced cancer presenting with vomiting secondary to inoperable […]
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PLoS One. 2014 Nov 25;9(11):e113188. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0113188. eCollection 2014 Palliative Care among Heart Failure Patients in Primary Care: A Comparison to Cancer Patients Using English Family Practice Data Gadoud A, Kane E, Macleod U, Ansell P, Oliver S, Johnson M Using the UK primary care database, Clinical Practice Research Datalink, this study explored if and when […]
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Scand J Prim Health Care. 2014 Dec;32(4):187-92. doi: 10.3109/02813432.2014.972068. Epub 2014 Nov 3 Drug treatment at the end of life: An epidemiologic study in nursing homes Jansen K, Schaufel MA, Ruths S In a cohort study of 524 patients in three Norwegian nursing homes, diagnoses, drug prescriptions and demographic data were collected from electronic records. On […]
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Cancer. 2014 Nov 4. doi: 10.1002/cncr.29097. [Epub ahead of print] The symptom burden of treatment-naive patients with head and neck cancer Hanna EY, Mendoza TR, Rosenthal DI, Gunn GB, Sehra P, Yucel E, Cleeland CS In this retrospective study of 748 patients with head and neck cancer who have not received treatment, symptoms, quality of […]
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Eur J Pain. 2014 Aug 4. doi: 10.1002/ejp.567. [Epub ahead of print] A systematic review of therapeutic interventions to reduce acute and chronic post-surgical pain after amputation, thoracotomy or mastectomy Humble SR, Dalton AJ, Li L In this systematic review of perioperative interventions reducing acute and chronic pain associated with amputation, mastectomy or thoracotomy, 32 […]