Update in palliative care--2011.
Abstract
INTRODUCTION:
The aim of this update is to summarize scientifically rigorous articles published in 2010 that serve to advance the field of palliative medicine and have an impact on clinical practice.
METHOD:
We
conducted two separate literature searches for articles published
between January 1, 2010 and December 31, 2010. We reviewed title pages
from the Annals of Internal Medicine, British Medical Journal, Journal
of the American Geriatrics Society, JAMA, Journal of Clinical Oncology,
JGIM, Journal of Pain and Symptom Management, Journal of Palliative Medicine, Lancet, New England Journal of Medicine, PC-FACS (Fast Article Critical Summaries for Clinicians in Palliative Care). We also conducted a Medline search with the key words "palliative," "hospice," and "terminal" care.
Each author presented approximately 20 abstracts to the group. All
authors reviewed these abstracts, and when needed, full text
publications. We focused on articles relevant to general internists. We
rated the articles individually, eliminating by consensus those that
were not deemed of highest priority, and discussed the final choices as a
group.
RESULTS:
We first identified 126 articles with
potential relevance. We presented 20 at the annual SGIM update session,
and discuss 11 in this paper.
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