End-of-life Care/ Palliative Medicine

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Most recent content (February 1, 2012):

• Book and Media Reviews:

  Wrong Medicine: Doctors, Patients, and Futile Treatment

  • Andrew Thompson

  JAMA. 2012;307(5):514-515.doi:10.1001/jama.2012.66
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Past content (since January 1998):

• Viewpoints:

  The Courts, Futility, and the Ends of Medicine

  • Douglas B. White,
  • Thaddeus M. Pope

  JAMA. 2012;307(2):151-152.doi:10.1001/jama.2011.1990
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• Research Letters:

  POLST Registry Do-Not-Resuscitate Orders and Other Patient Treatment Preferences

  • Erik K. Fromme,
  • Dana Zive,
  • Terri A. Schmidt,
  • Elizabeth Olszewski,
  • Susan W. Tolle

  JAMA. 2012;307(1):34-35.doi:10.1001/jama.2011.1956
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• Caring for the Critically Ill Patient:

  Perceptions of Appropriateness of Care Among European and Israeli Intensive Care Unit Nurses and Physicians

  • Ruth D. Piers,
  • Elie Azoulay,
  • Bara Ricou,
  • Freda DeKeyser Ganz,
  • Johan Decruyenaere,
  • Adeline Max,
  • Andrej Michalsen,
  • Paulo Azevedo Maia,
  • Radoslaw Owczuk,
  • Francesca Rubulotta,
  • Pieter Depuydt,
  • Anne-Pascale Meert,
  • Anna K. Reyners,
  • Andrew Aquilina,
  • Maarten Bekaert,
  • Nele J. Van Den Noortgate,
  • Wim J. Schrauwen,
  • Dominique D. Benoit,
  • for the APPROPRICUS Study Group of the Ethics Section of the ESICM

  JAMA. 2011;306(24):2694-2703.doi:10.1001/jama.2011.1888
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• Editorials:

  Perceived Inappropriateness of Care in the ICU: What to Make of the Clinician’s Perspective?

  • Scott D. Halpern

  JAMA. 2011;306(24):2725-2726.doi:10.1001/jama.2011.1897
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• Medical News & Perspectives:

  Hospital Palliative Care Programs Raise Grade to B in New Report Card on Access

  • Rebecca Voelker

  JAMA. 2011;306(21):2313-2314.doi:10.1001/jama.2011.1739
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• Commentaries:

  The Continuing Paradoxes of Nursing Home Policy

  • Bruce C. Vladeck

  JAMA. 2011;306(16):1802-1803.doi:10.1001/jama.2011.1527
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• Book and Media Reviews:

  Spectacular Death: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Mortality and (Un)representability

  • Andrew R. Barnosky

  JAMA. 2011;306(16):1804-1805.doi:10.1001/jama.2011.1547
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• Book and Media Reviews:

  Handbook of Pediatric Chronic Pain: Current Science and Integrative Practice

  • Devi E. Nampiaparampil

  JAMA. 2011;306(14):1602doi:10.1001/jama.2011.1452
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• Original Contributions:

  Regional Variation in the Association Between Advance Directives and End-of-Life Medicare Expenditures

  • Lauren Hersch Nicholas,
  • Kenneth M. Langa,
  • Theodore J. Iwashyna,
  • David R. Weir

  JAMA. 2011;306(13):1447-1453.doi:10.1001/jama.2011.1410
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  • JAMA Report Video