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Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek +13 more
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Ondansetron Treatment in a Child Presenting with Chronic Intractable Pruritus
Pain Research and Management, 2006 The case of a seven-year-old boy with chronic pruritus secondary to a giant congenital melanocytic nevus is presented. The pruritus did not respond to conventional antipruritic drug treatment, but responded to ondansetron, a selective antagonist of 5 ...
Chantal Frigon, Joëlle Desparmet
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Effects of stress and relaxation on central pain modulation in chronic whiplash and fibromyalgia patients compared to healthy controls [PDF]
, 2016 Background: Compelling evidence has demonstrated that impaired central pain modulation contributes to persistent pain in patients with chronic whiplash associated disorders (WAD) and fibromyalgia (FM).
Cagnie, Barbara +6 more
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Chronic pain assessments in children and adolescents : a systematic literature review of the selection, administration, interpretation, and reporting of unidimensional pain intensity scales [PDF]
, 2017 Background. Advances in pain assessment approaches now indicate which measures should be used to capture chronic pain experiences in children and adolescents.
Cordingley, L +4 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Gastrointestinal graft‐versus‐host disease (GI GVHD) following hematopoietic stem cell transplant is typically managed with medical therapy, but surgery and angioembolization may be warranted in selected cases with life‐threatening complications.
Gaia Brunetti +12 more
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Time of Day Influences Psychophysical Measures in Women With Burning Mouth Syndrome
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 Burning mouth syndrome (BMS) is a chronic orofacial pain condition that mainly affects postmenopausal women. BMS type I patients report little to no spontaneous pain in the morning and increases in pain through the day, peaking in the afternoon ...
Janell S. Payano Sosa +12 more
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Pain in systemic connective tissue diseases [PDF]
, 2015 Pain is frequent in patients with connective tissue diseases (CTDs), particularly those affected by systemic sclerosis (SSc) and systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) in which it is virtually ubiquitous and can have different causes.
Atzeni, Fabiola +4 more
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Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective To compare the efficacy and safety of roxarestat versus recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) in the management of renal anemia in patients undergoing maintenance hemodialysis. Methods This was a prospective, open‐label, randomized controlled trial.
Lingling Chen, Junjie Zhu, Qiaonan Ge
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BMJ, 1994 EDITOR, - Michael I Jayson's editorial on the causes of chronic back pain is to be lauded for two reasons.1 Firstly, it emphasises the disparity between clinically demonstrable findings and subjective complaints of pain: the wider the acknowledgement that a minor abnormality evident in a scan or x ray film may be coincidental to the complaint of pain ...
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Narrative Medicine: Improving Patient Care and Shifting Office Culture [PDF]
, 2017 Chronic pain and depression are both prevalent in the Unites States and often co-exist in the same population. According to the literature, there is no consensus between providers as to the best practice of treating chronic pain and concomitant ...
Qumsiyeh, Yazen, Shatten, Julia
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