Topics in Palliative Care Volume 4 [Hardcover]

I Survival Estimation in Palliative Care
1. Model for Estimation of Survival in Patients with Far-Advanced Cancer,Marco Maltoni, Oriana Nanni, Emanuela Scarpi, Morco Pirovano, and Dino Amadori
2. The Value of Symptoms in Prognosis of Cancer Patients,Victor T. Chang
3. Survival Estimation in Noncancer Patients with Advanced Disease,Ronald S. schonwetter and Chirag R. Jani
4. Communicating a Poor Prognosis,Gary S Fischer, James A. Tulsky, and Robert M. Arnold
II Education and Training in Palliative Care
5. Palliative Care audit: Tools, Objectives, and Models for training in Assessment, Monitoring, and Review,Irene J. Higginson and Julie Hearn
6. Cancer pain as a Model for the Training of Physicians in Palliative Care,David E. Weissman
7. The Palliative Care Unit as a Focus for Professional Education,J. Cameron Muir and Charles F. von Gunten
8. The Palliative Care Consultation Team as a Model for Palliative Care Education,Janet L. Abrahm
III Procoagulant and Anticoagulant Therapy in Palliative Care
9. The Management of Bleeding in Advanced Cancer Patients,Jose Pereira, Isabelle Mancini, and Eduardo Bruera
10. The Use of Heparin, Low Molecular Weight Heparin, and Oral Anticoagulants in the Management of Thromboembolic Disease,Grahm F. Pineo and Russell D. Hull
11. Prophylactic Anticogulant Therapy in the Terminally Ill Cancer Patient,Mark N. Levine
IV Issues in the Assessment and Management of Common Symptoms
12. Intraspinal Analgesic Therapy in Palliative Care: Evolving Perspective,Stuart L. Du Pen and Anna R. Du Pen
13. Pathophysiology and Assessment of Dyspnea in the Patient with Cancer,Deborah J. Dudgeon and Susan Rosenthal
14. The Role of Oxygen in Cancer-Related Dyspnea,Sharon Watanabe
15. Treatment of Delirium at thlS}