Issues in Palliative Care Research

ISBN: 9780195130652 出版年：2011 页码：427 Oxford University Press

PART I: PAIN RESEARCH 1. Methodological issues in the design of analgesic clinical trials PART II: RESEARCH IN ANOREXIA AND GASTROINTESTINAL DISORDERS 2. Methodological issues regarding cancer anorexia/cachexia trials 3. Assessment of novel therapies for constipation: focus on opioid analgesics 4. Measurement of constipation 5. Clinical trials of antiemetics in the palliative care setting: research issues PART III: RESEARCH IN RESPIRATORY SYMPTOMS 6. Multidimensional assessment of dyspnea 7. Research into nonpharmacological intervention for respiratory problems in palliative care PART IV: RESEARCH IN FATIGUE/ASTHENIA 8. Studying nonpharmacological interventions for fatigue 9. Evaluating the relationship of fatigue to depression and anxiety in cancer patients 10. Fatigue in medical illness: research issues 11. Methodological considerations in the treatment of fatigue PART V: NEUROPSYCHIATRIC AND PSYCHOSOCIAL RESEARCH 12. Depression in the terminally ill: prevalence and measurement issues 13. Issues in measuring family care needs and satisfaction PART VI: QUALITY-OF-LIFE RESEARCH 14. Usefulness of utility in making decisions about palliative care 15. Assessing quality of life in palliative care 16. Assessing decision-making capacity in the setting of palliative care research PART VII: RESEARCH ISSUES IN END-OF-LIFE CARE AND ETHICAL DECISION MAKING 17. Research in advance care planning 18. Research to improve end-of-life care in the United States: toward a more Behavioural and ecological paradigm 19. Studying desire for death: methodological issues in end-of-life research PART VIII: RESEARCH IN PRACTICE CHANGE 20. Changing palliative care practice in academic medical centres 21. Changing pain management practices in hospitals and cancer centres PART IX: RESEARCH ISSUES IN SPECIAL POPULATIONS 22. Current status of symptom measurement in children 23. Research in paediatric palliative care 24. Palliative care research in Human Immunodeficiency Virus/Acquired Immunodeficiency System: clinical trials of symptomatic therapies