Comprehensive Assessment of Patients in Palliative Care

Comprehensive care in gynecologic oncology: The importance of palliative care.

a University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, 800 NE 10th St., Oklahoma City, OK, 73014, USA b NYU School of Medicine, NYU Langone Medical Center, 240 East 38th Street, 19th Floor, New York, NY 10016, USA c UCSF Comprehensive Cancer Center, 1600 Divisadero St., 4th Floor, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA d University of Virginia Health System, PO Box 800712, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA e Univ...

Assessment and management of pain in palliative care patients.

BACKGROUND Pain affects more than 70% of cancer patients but is often undertreated. METHODS The authors review and present methodologies to maximize proper palliative approaches to this symptom for the majority of patients. RESULTS The World Health Organization's stepwise guide to pain control serves as an excellent basis for management. Around-the-clock dosing, using adjuvant treatments, a...

Depression in palliative care patients in Australia: identification and assessment

Symptom assessment in elderly cancer patients receiving palliative care.

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to examine the concordance of symptom assessment among the multiple raters in French-speaking elderly patients with an advanced cancer benefiting from palliative care. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study was conducted in a geriatric hospital with palliative care specificity. During 6 months, patient, nurse and physician completed the Edmonton symptom assess...

Quality-of-life assessment in palliative care.

Quality-of-life assessment can be a helpful tool in ensuring optimal palliative care. To adequately assess quality of life, it must be first defined and subsequently measured. This article outlines several of the instruments available to measure quality of life, including the Karnofsky Score, Edmonton Symptom Assessment, Memorial Symptoms Assessment Scale, European Organization for Research and...