2013-05-09T07:21:10Z Copyright (c) 2013, The RAND Corporation RAND Corporation http://www.rand.org/about/people/l/lorenz_karl.html http://www.rand.org/commentary/2009/09/11/CNN.html 2009-09-11T15:19:00Z 2009-09-11T15:19:00Z

What can you choose when life restricts you to the narrow width of a hospital bed and your view is one of life's final horizon, ask Steven M. Asch, Karl Lorenz, and Diane Meier.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20010510.html 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

The relationship between symptoms and health-related quality of life has not been fully explored.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20100112.html 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

This study of the factors associated with clinician's intention to treat pain symptoms suggests that useful targets for improving pain management include bolstering clinicians? confidence in their own pain management skills and improving their trust in pain ratings.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20071047.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

Authors' current efforts focus on using these indicators to aid implementation of a new resuscitation policy for seriously ill patients in our county.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20071034.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

The literature summaries that support each indicator judged valid by the expert panel are described.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080823.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

High-quality management of cancer pain depends on evidence-based standards for screening, assessment, treatment, and follow-up for general cancer pain and specific pain syndromes.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080822.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Examines progress in supportive cancer care, which encompasses direct and treatment-related impacts of cancer, including management of pain and other symptoms, and the psychosocial context, including spirituality and challenges of caregiving.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080824.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

The experience of patients with cancer often involves symptoms of fatigue, anorexia, depression, and dyspnea. The authors developed a set of standards through structured literature review and rating by a multidisciplinary expert panel.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080825.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Domains of information and care planning for high-quality cancer care include integration of palliation, advance care planning, sentinel events as markers for the need to readdress a patient's goals of care, and continuity of care planning.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080821.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Presents key targeted evidence-based and expert-rated standards for preventing and managing nausea and vomiting in cancer care, which should be incorporated into care pathways and should become the expectation rather than the exception.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20080111.html 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

More focus on these satisfaction elements might improve the effectiveness of end-of-life interventions and their evaluation.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20051030.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Examines the reasons and search strategies related to physicians' search for evidence and compares clinician and physician manager approaches for using evidence.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050822.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

A large majority of HIV-infected patients in the United States affirm the importance of religiousness and spirituality.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20050216.html 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Current arrangements for health care in the US do not address the needs of a growing population that has serious, eventually fatal chronic illness.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20070514.html 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

IAHPC developed a List of Essential Medicines for Palliative Care based on the consensus of palliative care workers from around the world.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040911.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Studies have confirmed ethnic disparities in the use of hospice services and identified barriers that minorities face in accessing care.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040926.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Discusses Oregon's Physicians orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) form.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20040506.html 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patients who are receiving complex palliative treatments could face barriers to hospice enrollment.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060805.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Patient-centered measures of functioning and well-being are needed to monitor and improve health for HIV-infected persons.

http://www.rand.org/pubs/external_publications/EP20060626.html 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Basic research is urgently needed to address measurement in populations with impaired self-report.