Between August 1986 and February 1987, 17 consecutive patients with symptomatic unresectable local or metastatic colorectal carcinoma were admitted to a pilot study designed to evaluate the toxicity and possible benefit, ...

The authors conducted a nine-item mail questionnaire of the 16 Canadian family medicine teaching programme directors to determine the accessibility and operation of palliative care education for their respective family ...

Codanthramer standard strength was compared by means of a randomized crossover clinical trial with a mixture of equal proportions of lactulose and senna. Subjects were hospice inpatients who had cancer but had had no bowel ...

This was a crossover study comparing a mucin-based artificial saliva (Saliva Orthana) and pilocarpine hydrochloride (Salagen) in the management of xerostomia in patients with advanced cancer. The pilocarpine was found to ...

To compare the quality of inpatient care for dying people in St Christopher's Hospice, London and nearby hospitals in 1994 and make comparisons with earlier studies of the same setting, interviews were undertaken with ...

It has been suggested an important difference between hospice and hospital care is that hospice care is more geared to the attainment of patient and family goals, and that these goals concern a broader range of comfort, ...

We compared two measures that have been used by professionals to assess the quality of life and care of patients wtih advanced cancer. The Support Team Assessment Schedule (STAS) is an instrument for palliative cancer ...

The palliation of cancer-related breathlessness is challenging and complex. An open pilot study was conducted, exploring the safety and efficacy of acupuncture in 20 patients who were breathless at rest and whose breathlessness ...