Monday, 7 April 2014

Essential reading on palliative care

On April 4, 2014, Cancerview.ca from the Canadian Partnership Against Cancer provides an essential list of articles on what quality palliative care looks like.

Some of the references include:

Heyland D.”What matters most in end-of-life care: perceptions of seriously ill patients and their families.” Canadian Medical Association Journal (2006); 174(5):827-633.

Singer P. “Quality End of Life Care: Patients Perspectives” Journal of the American Medical Association (1999);;281(2):163-16

Temel JS et al. “Early Palliative Care for Patients with Metastatic Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer.” New England Journal of Medicine (2010); 363:733-742.

Chochinov HM. “Dignity and the essence of medicine: the A,B, C, and D of dignity conserving care.” British Medical Journal (2007); 335 (7612): 184-187.

Chochinov HM. “Dignity in Care: Time to Take Action” Journal of Pain and Symptom Management (2013); S0885-3924(13)00452-1

Scapiro R et al. “Living and Dying Well with Cancer: Successfully Integrating Palliative Care and Cancer Treatment.” Missoula, Montana: Promoting Excellence in End of Life Care (2003).

Latimer E J. “Ethical care at the end of life.” Canadian Medical Association Journal (1998); 158:1741-7.

Brazil K et al. “Service Preferences Among Family Caregivers of the Terminally Ill.” Journal of Palliative Medicine (2005); 8(1): 69-78.

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