Vol 5, No 4 (October 21, 2016) - Annals of Palliative Medicine

Message From the Editor-in-Chief

Brain metastases, end-of-life medical policies, and controversies surrounding the term “do not resuscitate”

Charles B. Simone II

PDF Pages: 238-241 Full Text (8708) Open Access

Original Article

Is the French palliative care policy effective everywhere? Geographic variation in changes in inpatient death rates among older patients in France, 2010–2013

William B. Weeks, Bruno Ventelou, Marc Karim Bendiane

PDF Pages: 242-247 Full Text (3978) Open Access

Initial assessment of patients without cognitive failure admitted to palliative care: a validation study

José António Ferraz Gonçalves, Clara Castro, Paula Silva, Rui Carneiro, Catarina Simões, Isabel Costa

PDF Pages: 248-252 Full Text (3136) Open Access

Correlating symptoms and their changes with survival in patients with brain metastases

Erin Wong, Leigha Rowbottom, May Tsao, Liying Zhang, Rachel McDonald, Cyril Danjoux, Elizabeth Barnes, Stephanie Chan, Edward Chow

PDF Pages: 253-266 Full Text (7348) Open Access

Could time of whole brain radiotherapy delivery impact overall survival in patients with multiple brain metastases?

Stephanie Chan, Leigha Rowbottom, Rachel McDonald, Liying Zhang, Georg A. Bjarnason, May Tsao, Cyril Danjoux, Elizabeth Barnes, Henry Lam, Marko Popovic, Carlo DeAngelis, Edward Chow

PDF Pages: 267-279 Full Text (5431) Open Access

Review Article

Clinical hypnosis for palliative care in severe chronic diseases: a review and the procedures for relieving physical, psychological and spiritual symptoms

Maria Paola Brugnoli

PDF Pages: 280-297 Full Text (28079) Open Access

Original Article on Palliative Radiotherapy¹

Radiation therapy for the treatment of skin Kaposi sarcoma

May N. Tsao, Emily Sinclair, Dalal Assaad, Jeff Fialkov, Oleh Antonyshyn, Elizabeth Barnes

PDF Pages: 298-302 Full Text (7753) Open Access

Editorial on Ethics

A reasoned argument for the demise of the “do not resuscitate” order

Blair Henry

PDF Pages: 303-307 Full Text (22868) Open Access

The meaning of do-not-resuscitate and its relationship to morality and outcomes research

Mark A. Bradford

PDF Pages: 308-310 Full Text (7225) Open Access

Case Report

Palliative care for a patient with Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome: role of 3,4-diaminopyridine

Kwok-Ying Chan, Richard Shek-Kwan Chang, Vikki Wai-Kee Lau, Man-Lui Chan, Theresa Lai

PDF Pages: 311-314 Full Text (5117) Open Access

Possible role of aprepitant for intractable nausea and vomiting following whole brain radiotherapy—a case report

Deepti Ahuja, Sachidanand J. Bharati, Nishkarsh Gupta, Ritesh Kumar, Sushma Bhatnagar

PDF Pages: 315-318 Full Text (5438) Open Access

Editorial

The challenge of family-centered care in palliative medicine

David W. Kissane

PDF Pages: 319-321 Full Text (9269) Open Access

Radiotherapy for brain metastases: quo vadis?

Eric Ojerholm, Charles B. Simone II

PDF Pages: 322-324 Full Text (2745) Open Access

News

Annals of Palliative Medicine has become indexed in Emerging Sources Citation Index Web of Science and Scopus

Charles B. Simone II

PDF Pages: 325-326 Full Text (3086) Open Access

Disclosure:

1. The series “Palliative Radiotherapy” was commissioned by the editorial office, Annals of Palliative Medicine without any sponsorship or funding.

Vol 5, No 4 (October 21, 2016): Annals of Palliative Medicine