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" Palliative care : "
[edited by] Linda Emanuel, S. Lawrence Librach.
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BL
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966442
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b720812
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| Title & Author
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Palliative care : : core skills and clinical competencies /\ [edited by] Linda Emanuel, S. Lawrence Librach.
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Philadelphia, PA :: Saunders/Elsevier,, ©2007.
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xxx, 705 pages ;; 23 cm
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1416025979
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: 9781416025979
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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Palliative care: a quiet revolution in patient care -- Suffering: the hundred little deaths before dying -- Comprehensive assessment -- Communication skills -- Negotiating goals of care: changing goals along the trajectory of illness -- Multiple symptoms and multiple illnesses -- Pain -- Nausea/vomiting, anorexia/cachexia, and fatigue -- Depression, anxiety, and delirium -- Constipation -- Urinary incontinence -- Sexuality -- Dyspnea -- Loss, bereavement, and adaptation -- Understanding and respecting cultural differences -- Advance care planning -- Responding to requests for euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide -- Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining therapies -- Last hours of living -- Legal and ethical issues in the United States -- Hematology/oncology -- HIV/AIDS -- Heart disease -- Kidney failure -- Gastrointestinal malignancies -- Neurodegenerative diseases -- Principles of palliative surgery -- Chronic diseases and geriatrics -- Pulmonary palliative medicine -- Pediatric palliative care -- Palliative care in the intensive care unit -- Emergency medicine and palliative care -- The interdisciplinary team -- Palliative care nursing -- Social workers: the connective tissue of the health care system -- Spiritual care -- Palliative care in long-term care settings -- Integrating palliative care into disease management -- Palliative care services and programs -- The economic burden of end-of-life illness -- Palliative care in developing countries -- App. I: Formulary: medication tables -- App. II: Coding for physician services related to palliative care -- App. III: Resources for palliative and end-of-life care.
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Palliative treatment.
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Palliative treatment.
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Palliativtherapie.
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Palliative Care.
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Clinical Competence.
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| Dewey Classification
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616/.029
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R726.8.P3427 2007
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2007 J-880
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WB 310P1661 2007
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XC 2716rvk
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XC 5703rvk
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Emanuel, Linda L.
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Librach, S. Lawrence.
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