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Systematic Reviews on Palliative Care
Follow the links below to find summaries of systematic reviews of evidence for the effectiveness of therapies in palliative care.
For summaries of systematic reviews of the evidence for the effectiveness of terminal care interventions, follow the links from the Systematic Reviews of Terminal Care Interventions [HealthInsite Topic Page]
Reviewed January 2012
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| Title: | Radioisotopes for metastatic bone pain |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Pain is commonly experienced by people whose cancer has spread to their bones. There are several ways to treat this pain, including the administration of radioisotopes, which are chemical elements that emit radiation and act on the bone to reduce the ef... |
| Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Title: | Non-invasive interventions for improving well-being and quality of life in patients with lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Despite recent advances in lung cancer treatment, the outlook for most patients is grim. Many still face a short survival time during which they may suffer physical and psychological problems associated with the cancer and with side effects of treatment... |
| Date: | Jun 2011 |
| Title: | Interventions for improving palliative care for older people living in nursing care homes |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | People are living longer, however, the very old often have many health problems and disabilities which result in them living and eventually dying in care homes. Residents of such homes are highly likely to die there, making these places where palliative... |
| Date: | Feb 2011 |
| Title: | Medically assisted hydration for adult palliative care patients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review is an updated version of the original Cochrane review published in Issue 2, 2008, there has been no change to the conclusions since the first version was published. It is common for palliative care patients to have reduced fluid intake durin... |
| Date: | Feb 2011 |
| Title: | Systematic Reviews of Palliative Care Medications |
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| Publisher: | HealthInsite Topic Page |
| Description: | Links to systematic reviews of the evidence of the effectiveness of palliative care medications. |
| Date: | Dec 2010 |
| Title: | Laxatives or methylnaltrexone for the management of constipation in palliative care patients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Palliative care patients commonly experience constipation. This is as a result of the use of medications (in particular opioids) for pain control, as well as disease, dietary and mobility factors. This review aimed to determine the effectiveness of laxa... |
| Date: | Dec 2010 |
| Title: | Drug therapy for pain in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis or motor neuron disease |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as motor neuron disease (MND), is the most common neurodegenerative disorder of the motor system in adults. Pain is a frequent symptom and may have a pronounced impact on quality of life and suffering. Des... |
| Date: | May 2010 |
| Title: | Droperidol for treatment of nausea and vomiting in palliative care patients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Nausea (a feeling of sickness) and vomiting are common and distressing symptoms for people with advanced cancer and other life-threatening illnesses. Several medications to control these symptoms are available. Droperidol is one example which has been u... |
| Date: | Aug 2009 |
| Title: | Chemotherapy versus best supportive care for extensive small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | SmalI cell lung cancer accounts for nearly a quarter of all new cases of lung cancer. This cancer is often diagnosed after it has spread to the brain, liver, bone or bone marrow and most patients die in the first year after diagnosis. This review found ... |
| Date: | Apr 2009 |
| Title: | Palliative biliary stents for obstructing pancreatic carcinoma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The majority of patients with cancer of the pancreas are diagnosed only after blockage of the bile ducts has occurred. Surgical by-pass (SBP) or endoscopic stenting (ES) of the blockage are the treatment options available for these patients. This review... |
| Date: | Mar 2009 |
| Title: | Haloperidol for the treatment of nausea and vomiting in palliative care patients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | We did not identify any randomised controlled trials (RCTs) to find out if haloperidol is a useful drug for the treatment of nausea or vomiting in palliative care patients. Nausea and vomiting are common problems for patients with serious life threateni... |
| Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Title: | Second-line chemotherapy in advanced and metastatic CRC |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Patients with metastatic or advanced colorectal cancer are often treated with chemotherapy. If the disease doesn't improve with a specific chemotherapy regimen, a different chemotherapy regimen may be tried, called second-line treatment, with the aim to... |
| Date: | Jan 2009 |
| Title: | Palliative cytoreductive surgery versus other palliative treatments in patients with unresectable liver metastases from gastro-entero-pancreatic neuroendocrine tumours |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Liver metastases (liver spread) from gastrointestinal neuroendocrine tumours (cancer of intestinal hormone cells which originate from the embryonic nerve cells or the embryonic outer coat) are generally treated with surgery if a complete removal is deem... |
| Date: | Jul 2008 |
| Title: | Medically assisted nutrition for palliative care in adult patients |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | It is common for palliative care patients to have reduced oral intake during their illness. Management of this condition includes discussion with the patient, family and staff involved and may include giving nutrition with medical assistance. This can b... |
| Date: | Jul 2008 |
| Title: | Palliative endobronchial brachytherapy for non-small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Patients with inoperable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) have a poor prognosis and the therapeutic options are limited to controlling their symptoms and maintaining their quality of life. Palliative endobronchial brachytherapy (EBB) is used as a trea... |
| Date: | Dec 2007 |
| Title: | Methadone for cancer pain |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Pain is a common and debilitating symptom of cancer. Methadone is an opioid drug used to treat cancer pain, and can be given by mouth as liquid, tablet or capsule, via the rectum as a suppository, or injected into the vein, muscle or under the skin. Thi... |
| Date: | Aug 2007 |
| Title: | Ketamine as an adjuvant to opioids for cancer pain |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | The benefits and harms of adding ketamine to strong pain-killers such as morphine for the relief of cancer pain are not yet established. Morphine-like drugs (opioids) are frequently prescribed for moderate and severe cancer pain, but in some cases these... |
| Date: | Jun 2007 |
| Title: | Oxygen therapy for dyspnoea in adults |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | This review aimed to determine if oxygen therapy relieves breathlessness in end-stage illness in adults. No overall improvement of breathlessness in cancer study participants was found when oxygen breathing was compared to air breathing. However, some c... |
| Date: | Apr 2007 |
| Title: | Doxorubicin-based chemotherapy for the palliative treatment of adult patients with locally advanced or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | Doxorubicin is commonly used as palliative chemotherapy for patients with advanced or metastatic soft tissue sarcoma (cancer of muscle/tendon/fat/blood vessel). This review was conducted to find out if combining doxorubicin with other drugs is more effe... |
| Date: | Sep 2006 |
| Title: | Palliative radiotherapy regimens for non-small cell lung cancer |
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| Publisher: | John Wiley and Sons, Ltd. for The Cochrane Collaboration |
| Description: | In most developed countries lung cancer is one of the commonest tumours. Only 10 to 20% of patients can have surgery with a chance of cure. For many of the rest it can be beneficial to treat the tumour in the lung with radiotherapy to relieve symptoms s... |
| Date: | Aug 2006 |
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