Surveys indicate that clinicians are frequently ill equipped to treatcancer pain. Pain is often
poorly assessed, and many caregivers lacksufficient knowledge to optimize treatment …

Cancer is newly diagnosed in more than 1 million Americans annually, and 1 of 5 deaths in
the United States--about 1400 per day--results from cancer1. Cancer is increasingly …

PURPOSE: To identify medical care indicators for nursing home terminal care. DATA
SOURCES: Studies examining care of terminally ill patients were identified using computer …

Objective To record doctors' attitudes towards, and practice of, active voluntary euthanasia
(AVE) and physician‐assisted suicide (PAS) in New South Wales and the Australian Capital …

PURPOSE This study was undertaken to determine if the daily use of a verbal pain scale
could improve the correlation of pain perception between hospitalized oncology patients …

The problem of inappropriate prescribing of medications to older patients is widely
acknowledged and has been publicized by professional societies, governmental …

This article summarizes the pharmacologic principles necessary to rationally understand
and use sedatives and opioids for the treatment of agitation, delirium, and pain relief in …

THE AMERICAN debate about whether to legalize physicianassisted suicide touches the
head and the heart of medical ethics. Participants have focused on moral philosophy or civil …

Practice guidelines have existed for many years, as recommendations for patient
management that identify one or more strategies for treatment. While they were originally …

Johann Sebastian Bach's satiricalCoffee Cantata, using a libretto by the Leipzig poet
Picander, reflected the controversy about coffee drinking that existed in early 18th-century …