Published March, 2011
By Joanne Wolfe, Pamela Hinds, Barbara Sourkes, Pamela S. Hinds and Barbara M. Sourkes
Publisher: Elsevier (W B Saunders Co Ltd)
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Intends to inform interdisciplinary teams about palliative care of children with life-threatening illness. This title addresses domains such as language and communication, symptoms and quality of life, and the spectrum of life-threatening illnesses. It shows how a collaborative, interdisciplinary care strategy benefits patients and their families.

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Published March, 2011
By R. M. Stern, Kenneth L. Koch and Paul Andrews
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
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Published February, 2011
By Julian Hughes and Julian C. Hughes
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: International Perspectives in Philosophy & Psychiatry
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Dementia affects millions of people throughout the world. Thinking through Dementia offers a critique of the main models used to understand dementia-the biomedical, neuropsychological, and social constructionist. It discusses clinical issues and cases, together with philosophical work that might help us to better understand and treat this illness.

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Published February, 2011
By Barry Kinzbrunner, Joel Policzer, Barry M. Kinzbrunner and Joel S. Policzer
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (McGraw-Hill Medical)
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The most practical book available for caring for the needs of dying patients and their families

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Published February, 2011
By Sara Booth, Helen E. Davies and Anna Spathis
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Series: Oxford Specialist Handbooks in End of Life Care
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The third book in the palliative care strand of the Oxford Specialist Handbooks demonstrates how palliative medicine and respiratory medicine physicians can combine their expertise to offer the best possible quality of care for patients dying from advanced respiratory disease.

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Published January, 2011
By Augusto Caraceni and Luigi Grassi
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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This volume provides palliative care physicians, specialist nurses, neurologists, psychiatrists, and other health professionals with a clear account of how to recognise and treat delirium, the most common neuro-psychiatric complication encountered by patients in the terminal phase of illness.

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Published December, 2010
By Susan Folkman and Peter E. Nathan
Publisher: Oxford University Press (Oxford University Press Inc)
Series: Oxford Library of Psychology
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Published December, 2010
By Michael Molls, H.-P. Heilmann, L.W. Brady, Robert G. Parker, Nora A. Janjan, Michael T. Selch, S.M. Mellinkoff, M. Molls, R.G. Parker, N.A. Janjan and M.T. Selch
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. K)
Series: Medical Radiology
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Given that treatment with curative intent is possible in only one-half of cancer victims, and that such treatment frequently fails, the majority of patients with cancer will require relief of symptoms and signs caused by their disease.

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Published December, 2010
By John Ellershaw and Susie Wilkinson
Publisher: Oxford University Press
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Even for the most experienced healthcare professional, managing the last few days of life can be difficult. This unique book provides guidelines for the care of the dying based on the Liverpool Integrated Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP).

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Published November, 2010
By Stephen J. Mcphee, Margaret A. Winker, Michael W. Rabow, Steven Z. Pantilat, Amy J. Markowitz, JAMA, Stephen McPhee, Michael Rabow, Margaret Winker, Steven Pantilat and Amy Markowitz
Publisher: McGraw-Hill (McGraw-Hill Medical)
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Evidence-based and case-based guidance on caring for patients at the end of life from the world's leading medical journal

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