Related Articles Place of death in the Snowy Monaro region of New South Wales: A study of residents who died of a condition amenable to palliative care. Aust J Rural Health. 2018 Apr;26(2):126-133 Authors: Rainsford S, Glasgow NJ, MacLeod RD, Neeman T, Phillips CB, Wiles RB Abstract OBJECTIVE: To describe the place of death of residents in a rural region of New South Wales. DESIGN: Cross-sectional quantitative study using death data collected from local funeral directors (in person and websites), residential aged-care facilities, one multipurpose heath service and obituary notices in the local media (newspapers/radio). SETTING: Snowy Monaro region (New…
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Related Articles Safety and efficacy of transpapillary bridged bilateral side-by-side stenting for unresectable malignant hilar biliary obstruction. Hepatobiliary Pancreat Dis Int. 2017 Dec 15;16(6):659-661 Authors: Maruyama H, Tominaga K, Kato K, Sugimori S, Shiba M, Watanabe T, Fujiwara Y PMID: 29291787 [PubMed – indexed for MEDLINE]
Origen: Safety and efficacy of transpapillary bridged bilateral side-by-side stenting for unresectable malignant hilar biliary obstruction. – PubMed

Related Articles Impact of a dedicated palliative radiation oncology service on the use of single fraction and hypofractionated radiation therapy among patients with bone metastases. Ann Palliat Med. 2018 Apr;7(2):186-191 Authors: Skamene S, Agarwal I, Makar M, Krishnan M, Spektor A, Hertan L, Mouw KW, Taylor A, Noveroske Philbrick S, Balboni T Abstract BACKGROUND: Radiation therapy (RT) is frequently used to palliate symptomatic bone metastases. While high quality literature has shown that for uncomplicated bone metastases, shorter radiotherapy courses are just as effective as longer courses for the treatment of pain, shorter courses remain under-utilized. We aimed to assess the…
Origen: Impact of a dedicated palliative radiation oncology service on the use of single fraction and hypofractionated radiation therapy among patients with bone metastases. – PubMed

Related Articles A moment for compassion: emerging rhetorics in end-of-life care. Med Humanit. 2018 Jun;44(2):140-143 Authors: Zaman S, Whitelaw A, Richards N, Inbadas H, Clark D Abstract Compassion is an emotional response to the suffering of others. Once felt, it entails subsequent action to ameliorate their suffering. Recently, ‘compassion’ has become the flagship concept to be fostered in the delivery of end-of-life care, and a rallying call for social action and public health intervention. In this paper, we examine the emerging rhetorics of compassion as they relate to end-of-life care and offer a critique of the expanding discourse around it.…
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Related Articles Optimal relief for pain at the end of life: a caregiver’s tale. Med Humanit. 2018 Jun;44(2):120-124 Authors: Morris DB Abstract The current opioid crisis-driven partly by medical overprescription and partly by illegal drug abuse-is a significant cultural and professional dilemma in the USA and elsewhere. It has produced a strong reaction in favour of restricting medical use of opioids for pain, especially chronic pain. The author for a quarter century has written about pain from a biocultural perspective, and in this essay-based on his experience as primary caregiver for his late wife-he approaches the question of appropriate opioid…
Origen: Optimal relief for pain at the end of life: a caregiver's tale. – PubMed