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Health care professionals’ responses to religious or spiritual statements by surrogate decision makers during goals-of-care discussions. |
Ernecoff NC, Curlin FA, Buddadhumaruk P, White DB. |
Spirituality and Goals of Care Background: Religious and spiritual considerations are important to many families, and surrogates are often absent from end-of-life discussions.1-... |
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Terminal versus advanced cancer: do the general population and health care professionals share a common language? [Published online ahead of print August 10, 2015]. |
Kim SH, Shin DW, Kim SY, et al. |
Perceptions of Cancer Stages Background: Patients and families often do not have a good understanding of cancer stage and prognosis, with implications for treatment decisions.1-... |
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Financial distress and its associations with physical and emotional symptoms and quality of life among patients with advanced cancer. |
Delgado-Guay M, Ferrer J, Rieber A, et al. |
Financial Distress During Late-Stage Cancer Background: Financial distress (FD), common among patients with cancer, is frequently not assessed by clinicians. How frequent is FD ... |
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Sustained suppression of hyperalgesia during latent sensitization byμ-, δ-, and κ-opioid receptors and α2A adrenergic receptors: role of constitutive activity. |
Walwyn WM, Chen W, Kim H, et al. |
Hyperalgesia Suppression During Latent Sensitization Background: Little is known about how µ opioid receptors (MORs) suppress pain, particularly after sensitization, ... |
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Association of do-not-resuscitate orders and hospital mortality rate among patients with pneumonia. |
Walkey AJ, Weinberg J, Wiener RS, Cooke CR, Lindenauer PK. |
DNR Status and In-Hospital Mortality Background: Do not resuscitate (DNR) status is not considered when determining in-hospital or performance-based, risk-adjusted mortalit... |
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Randomized trial of low-dose morphine versus weak opioids in moderate cancer pain. |
Bandieri E, Romero M, Ripamonti CI, et al. |
Low-Dose Morphine Versus Weak Opioids Background: Despite international guidelines,1 controversy exists regarding how to treat moderate cancer pain.2,3 Would a weak opioid ... |
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