Overview
Predicting survival and other outcomes is increasingly being recognized as an important skill for palliative care physicians, internists, and other health care professionals who care for patients with advanced cancer at the end of life. There is much prognostic information available that is scattered throughout the palliative care and oncological literature but this is the first time it has been gathered systematically in one place. This book has 36 chapters divided into three sections. The first is an introductory section that deals with the principles of prognostication, including formulating the prediction and then communicating it. Topics such as statistical issues, evidence based medicine, and the ethics of prognostication are also covered. The second section addresses prognostication in fifteen specific cancers when they have reached the advanced stage. The third section deals with prognostication in patients with a variety of common clinical conditions at the end of life, such as bowel obstruction, hypercalcemia, and brain metastases.
Full Product Details
Author: Paul Glare ,
Nicholas A. Christakis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 17.10cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 24.60cm
Weight: 0.738kg
ISBN: 9780198530220
ISBN 10: 0198530226
Pages: 456
Publication Date: December 2008
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
...the quality of this book is outstanding...very necessary for physicians and other medical personnel. * Marlene S. Foreman, BSN, Hospice of Acadiana, Inc. *
...the quality of this book is outstanding...very necessary for physicians and other medical personnel. Marlene S. Foreman, BSN, Hospice of Acadiana, Inc.
Author Information
Dr Paul Glare has been a Fellow of the Royal Australian College of Physicians since 1990, a Fellow of the Chapter of Palliative Medicine since it was created in 2000 and is a Fellow of the Faculty of Pain Medicine. As well as maintaining a full clinical load, he is an active teacher and researcher. His principal research interests are prognostication and the anorexia cachexia syndrome. He was the inaugural Research Fellow in the Palliative Care Program at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio USA, from 1989 until 1991. For more than 15 years he has taken a leadership role in the development of the specialty of palliative medicine, both locally and internationally, and is currently managing major initiatives in palliative care education and service delivery for the New South Wales Department of Health. Nicholas Christakis is an internist and social scientist who conducts research on social factors that affect health, health care, and longevity. His clinical work is in the field of palliative medicine. Dr. Christakis's past research has examined the accuracy and role of prognosis in medicine, ways of improving end of life care, and the determinants and outcomes of hospice use. He is currently concerned with health and social networks, and specifically with how ill health disability, health behaviour, health care, and death in one person can influence the same phenomena in others in a person's social network, including issues related to caregiver burden. Dr. Christakis was the recipient of the Distinguished Researcher Award, National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization, awarded for an outstanding body of work contributing to the enhancement of hospice and palliative care in 2006.
