Purpose Metastatic spinal cord compression (MSCC) can be a catastrophic manifestation of
advanced cancer that causes immobilizing pain and significant neurologic impairment …

Personalised and targeted interventions have revolutionised cancer treatment and
dramatically improved survival rates in recent decades. Nonetheless, effective pain …

Funding for the development of this Practice Guidance was provided by the American
Association for the Study of Liver Diseases. MV was supported by aAQ19 Patient-Centered …

Importance Patients with advanced cancer often report expectations for survival that differ
from their oncologists' expectations. Whether patients know that their survival expectations …

Prognosis can no longer be relegated behind diagnosis and therapy in high-quality
neurologic care. High-stakes decisions that patients (or their surrogates) make often rest …

The rise in the number of older prisoners in many nations has been described as a
correctional “ageing crisis” which poses an urgent financial, medical and programmatic …

Palliative care is a relatively new discipline, and over the past 10 years programs have
grown rapidly. Since 2000, the number of hospitals with inpatient palliative care teams has …

Introduction. In recent years the emergence of new types of patient, clinical situations,
technological frontiers and “health” objectives have changed considerably the needs of ill …

Background Understanding the characteristics of communication that foster patient-centered
outcomes amid serious illness are essential for the science of palliative care. However …

The current focus in dementia care places emphasis on the potential of people to live well
with the condition. Given the historical tendency to neglect the full rights and citizenship of …