09.17.2018
Clinical Alerts
09.17.2018
Does Colace (Docusate) Work for Constipation? No!
Dr. Robert Arnold, a palliative care physician at the University of Pittsburgh critiqued a study reported in the 2013 Journal of Pain and Symptom Management...
08.09.2018
New Fast Facts Topic Available
The Palliative Care Network of Wisconsin (PCNOW) provides peer-reviewed, evidence-based summaries of key palliative care topics (“Fast Facts”). PCNOW recently released Fast Fact #361, Parkinson’s...
08.09.2018
Tailored Lighting Improves Alzheimer’s Patients Sleep, Mood
Persons with Alzheimer’s disease characteristically experience sleep disturbances that contribute to increased agitation and altered mood. In a crossover study of tailored lighting interventions in...
08.09.2018
End-of-Life Learning from the Philosophy of Ninjas
Pallimed: A Hospice & Palliative Medicine Blog is an educational blog that reviews palliative care topics including media coverage of hospice and palliative care issues....
07.06.2018
Consensus Guidelines on the Use of Intravenous Ketamine Infusions for Acute Pain Management
Ketamine use in doses lower than used for anesthesia has grown for indications of severe depression, chronic pain and acute pain. Guidelines for the use...
07.06.2018
Substitute Decision Making in End-of-Life Care
Periodically, The New England Journal of Medicine publishes a “Clinical Decisions” interactive that addresses the approach to a clinical issue. A case vignette is followed...
07.06.2018
Deprescribing Unnecessary Medications: A Four-Part Process
This article in Family Practice Management begins with a patient case followed by a discussion on polypharmacy and a four-part deprescribing process. The patient case...
07.06.2018
Meta-analysis of Interventions to Reduce Adverse Drug Reactions in Older Adults
Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are defined as “a response to a drug that is noxious and unintended and occurs at doses normally used in man…”...