TY  - BOOK
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ED  - SpringerLink (Online service)
TI  - Palliative Care: A Case-based Guide 
T2  - Current Clinical Oncology
SN  - 9781607615903
AV  - RC1-1245 
U1  - 616 23
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Totowa, NJ
PB  - Humana Press, Imprint: Humana Press
KW  - Medicine
KW  - Internal medicine
KW  - Nursing
KW  - Pain Medicine
KW  - Quality of Life
KW  - Research
KW  - Medicine & Public Health
KW  - Internal Medicine
KW  - Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
KW  - Quality of Life Research
N1  - Global Palliative Care Issues -- Palliative Care Communication Issues -- Nutritional Palliative Care Issues -- Psychiatric Palliative Care Issues -- Cardiac Palliative Care Issues -- Pulmonary Palliative Care Issues -- GI Palliative Care Issues -- Palliative Pain Issues -- Palliative Wound and Skin Issues -- Issues in the Last Hours; ZDB-2-SME
N2  - This concise book offers an engaging case-based approach to palliative care. Experts in the field provide the essential aspects of daily practice with real cases presented as forums for the discussion of the complexities and practicalities of palliative treatment. Clearly structured, each chapter opens with bullet points highlighting the most relevant aspects of the case and points for discussion. Covering the full range of symptoms from cardiac care to pain management to wound healing, the vital elements of management are put into context through insightful dissections of history, examination, and goals of care. Each chapter concludes with a section on further reading. Palliative Care: a Case-based Guide provides the clinician with a crucial set of skills to address the challenging issues related to communication and symptom management. Care-oriented and practical, this book is ideal for all health care professionals committed to providing quality, compassionate care to end-of-life patients
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-60761-590-3
ER  -