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Fall 2011 Vol (27:3)

Editorial

Articles

• Shifting Life Rhythms: Couples' stories about living together when one spouse has advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
  Kristina Ek, Britt-Marie Ternestedt, Birgitta Andershed, and Eva Sahlberg-Blom p. 189
• Decision-Making for Gastrostomy and Ventilatory Support for People with Motor Neurone Disease: Variations across UK hospices
  David Oliver, Colin Campbell, Nigel Sykes, Carole Tallon, and Annette Edwards p. 198
• Professional Development: Iranian and Swedish nurses' experiences of caring for dying people
  Sedigheh Iranmanesh, Zahra Ghazanfari, Stefan Sävenstedt, and Terttu Häggström p. 202
• Evaluating the Economic Loss of Caregiving for Palliative Care Patients
  Philip Jacobs, Serge Dumont, Véronique Turcotte, and Donna Anderson p. 210
• The Effect of Palliative Daycare on Hope: A comparison of daycare patients with two control groups
  DMargaret P. Guy, Irene J. Higginson, and Brendan D.W. Amesbury p. 216
• Emergency Department Use among End-of-Life Home Care Clients
  Peter Brink and Lorraine Partanen p. 224

Orienteering

• Nursing Guidelines for End-of-Life Care in Long-Term Care Settings: Sustainable improvements to care
  Carole Gill, Loretta M. Hillier, Jacqueline M. Crandall, and Julie Johnston p. 229

Global Exchange

• Constructing a Post-graduate Palliative Care Curriculum: The Israeli National Palliative Care Training (INPACT) experience
  Pesach Shvartzman, Yoram Singer, Netta Bentur, Amitai Oberman, Yaacov Kabilu, Robert Cohen, and Howard Tandeter p. 238

Frontline Dispatch

• Addressing Suffering through an Inter-professional Online Module: Learning with, from, and about each other
  Pippa Hall, Lynda Weaver, and Timothy G. Willett p. 244

N.B. Note Well p. 247

Abstracts

• Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Conference: Navigating Safe Pathways to Quality Hospice Palliative Care p. 249

Summer 2011 (27:2)

Editorial p. 67

Articles

• Sleeping with One Eye Open: The sleep experience of family members providing palliative care at home
  Brenda Hearson, Susan Mcclement, Diana E. Mcmillan, and Michael Harlos p. 69
• Resource Use and Costs of End-of-Life/Palliative Care: Ontario adult cancer patients dying during 2002 and 2003
  Hugh Walker, Mark Anderson, Farah Farahati, Doris Howell, S. Lawrence Librach, Amna Husain, Jonathan Sussman, Raymond Viola, Rinku Sutradhar,and Lisa Barbera p. 79
• Prognosticating in Palliative Care: A survey of Canadian palliative care physicians
  Mark Corkum, Raymond Viola, Chris Veenema, Dan Kruszelnicki, and Joshua Shadd p. 89
• Identifying Population Groups with Low Palliative Care Program Enrolment Using Classification and Regression Tree Analysis
  Jun Gao, Grace M. Johnston, M. Ruth Lavergne, and Paul Mcintyre p. 98
• Exploring the Extent of Communication Surrounding Transitions to Palliative Care in Heart Failure: The perspectives of health care professionals
  Emilie Green, Clare Gardiner, Merryn Gott, and Christine Ingleton p. 107
• Crisis in Caregiving: When home-based end-of-life care is no longer possible
  Deborah P. Waldrop and Mary Ann Meeker p. 117
• Comparing the Cost of Alternative Models of End-of-Life Care
  Tom Mcbride, Alec Morton, Andy Nichols, and Christian Van Stolk p. 126
• Hospice Residents' Interest in Complementary and Alternative Medicine (CAM) at End-of-Life: A pilot study in hospice residences in British Columbia
  Sherin Rahim-Jamal, Ann Sarte, Jean Kozak, Kathy Bodell, Maria Christina Barroetavena, Romayne Gallagher, and Anne Leis p. 134
• Neuroleptic Prescription Pattern for Delirium in Patients with Advanced Cancer
  Eduardo Bruera p. 141

Forum

• No One Dies of "Old Age": Implications of this omission for research, practice, and policy
  Adonna M. Wilson, Joachim Cohen, Stephen Birch, Rod Macleod, Deepthi Mohankumar, Paul Armstrong, Katherine Froggatt, Anneke L. Francke, Gail Low, Brendan Mccormack, Vivien Hollis, and Allison Williams p. 148

Global Exchange

• Attitude of Doctors in an Asian Oncology Centre Towards Referral to Palliative Care
  Ching-Ye Hong, Guat Ngoo Ng, Jissy Poulose, Nelson Lianli Lin, and Cynthia Ruth Goh p. 157
• Association of The Karnofsky Performance Scale with the Quality of Life of Brazilian Women Undergoing Palliative Care
  Carlos Henrique Debenedito Silva, Sirlei Sianni Morais, and Sophie F.M. Derchain p. 164
• Sikh Perspectives Towards Death and End-of-Life Care
  Shanil Ebrahim, Sheena Bance, and Kerry W. Bowman p. 164

Frontline Dispatch

• Designing a Canadian Pediatric Palliative Care Residency Program
  Jana Pilkey, Mike Harlos, and Christopher Hohl p. 175

Book Reviews p. 181

N.B. Note Well p. 183

Spring 2011 (27:1)

Editorial

Guest Editorial

Articles

• Patients' Perspectives on End-of-Life Issues and Implantable Cardioverter Defibrillators
  Patricia H. Strachan, Sandra L. Carroll, Sonya de Laat, Lisa Schwartz, and Heather M. Arthur p. 6
• Specialist Physician Approaches to Discussing Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation for Frail Older Adults: A qualitative study
  Laurie Mallery, Ruth E. Hubbard, Paige Moorhouse, Katalin Koller, and Eamonn M.P. Eeles p. 12

Current Review

• Integrating Palliative Care with Chronic Liver Disease Care
  Aluko A. Hope and R. Sean Morrison p. 20

Frontline Dispatch

• Developing a Breathlessness Intervention Service for Patients with Palliative and Supportive Care Needs, Irrespective of Diagnosis
  Sara Booth, Catherine Moffat, Morag Farquhar, Irene J. Higginson, and Julie Burkin p. 28
• Palliative Care for People with Chronic Heart Failure: When is it time?
  Miriam J. Johnson and Amy Gadoud p. 37

Orienteering

• Exploring the Lived Experience of Having a Terminal Illness
  David Kuhl p. 43
• Integrating Palliative Care for Patients with Advanced Chronic Kidney Disease: Recent advances, remaining challenges
  Sara N. Davison p. 53

Book Reviews

• Remember, Remember
  Reviewed by Deanna Hutchings p. 62

N.B. Note Well p. 63

Winter 2010 (26:4)

Editorial

Articles

• A Pilot Study on the Effectiveness of Anticipatory Grief Therapy for Elderly Facing the End of Life
  Joanna Oi-Yue Cheng, Raymond Lo, Faye Chan, and Jean Woo p. 261
• How End-of-Life Home Care Services Are Used from Admission to Death: A population-based cohort study
  Hsien Seow, Lisa Barbera, Doris Howell, and Sydney M. Dy p. 270
• Determinants of Place of Death for Recipients of Home-Based Palliative Care
  Lisa Masucci, Denise N. Guerriere, Richard Cheng, and Peter C. Coyte p. 279
• Learning to Work with the "Unsolvable": Building capacity for working with refractory suffering
  Margaret Mary Hegarty, Katrina Margaret Breaden, Catherine Margaret Swetenham, and Carol Grbich p. 287

Forum

• Using Critical Reflection to Support Health Promotion Goals in Palliative Care
  Jan Fook and Allan Kellehear p. 295

Frontline Dispatch

• Dying under a Cloud
  Deborah Hansen p. 303

Global Exchange

• Palliative Care Activity in the Field of Oncology in Turkey
  Hanife Ozcelik, Cicek Fadiloglu, Bulent Karabulut, and Meltem Uyar p. 305

Case Report

• Successful Treatment of a Seizure Disorder with Chronic High Dose Chloral Hydrate: A pediatric case report
  Régis Vaillancourt, Michael Collins, Chris Vadeboncoeur, Pierre Jacob, Nancy Graham, Donna Foster, and William Splinter p. 311

Book Reviews

• Social Work in End-of-Life and Palliative Care
  Reviewed by Iris Cohen Fineberg p. 314
• Clinician's Guide to Interpersonal Psychotherapy in Late Life: Helping Cognitively Impaired or Depressed Elders and Their Caregivers
  Reviewed by Hildegard Brack p. 315
• The Study of Dying: From Autonomy to Transformation
  Reviewed by Arthur Frank p. 316

N.B. Note Well p. 317

• A Word of Gratitude p. 320

Automn 2010 (26:3)

Editorial

Articles

• Using a Quality Framework to Assess Rural Palliative Care.
  Donna Goodridge and Wendy Duggleby 141
• What Really Matters in Pain Management for Terminally Ill Cancer Patients in Taiwan
  Siew Tzuh Tang, Woung-Ru Tang, Tsang-Wu Liu, Che-Pin Lin, and Jen-Shi Chen 151
• La Belle Mort en Milieu Rural: A report of an ethnographic study of the good death for Quebec rural francophones
  Anne-Marie Veillette, Lise Fillion, Donna M. Wilson, Roger Thomas, and Serge Dumont 159
• Letters from Relatives: A source of information providing rich insight into the experience of the family in palliative care
  Carlos Centeno, María Arantzamendi, Belén Rodríguez. and Miguel Tavares 167
• The Effectiveness and Adverse Effects Profile of "Burst" Ketamine in Refractory Cancer Pain: The VCOG PM 1-00 study
  Kate Jackson, Michael Ashby, Deb Howell, Jennifer Petersen, David Brumley, Phillip Good, Maria Pisasale, Simon Wein, and Roger Woodruff 176
• Family Caregivers of Palliative Cancer Patients at Home: The puzzle of pain management
  Anita Mehta, S. Robin Cohen, Franco A. Carnevale, Hélène Ezer, and Francine Ducharme 184

Global Exchange

• Scaling up a Community-Based Palliative Care Program among Faith-Based Hospitals in Tanzania
  Kristopher N. Hartwig, Kari A. Hartwig, Phil DiSorbo, Berit Hofgren, Lisa Motz-Storey, Paul Mmbando, Mellow Msurri, Faith Mwangi-Powell, Richard A. Powell, Shelley Smith, and Mark Jacobson 194

Frontline Dispatch

• Re-examining the Definition of Location of Death in Health Services Research
  Beverley J. Lawson and Frederick I. Burge 202

Book Review

• The Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine, 4th ed.
  Reviewed by Bernard Lapointe, Dawn Allen, and Vasiliki Bitzas 207

N.B. Note Well 209

• Abstracts
• 18th International Congress on Palliative Care 210
• Canadian Hospice Palliative Care Conference: Changing the National Perspective on Hospice Palliative Care 252

Summer 2010 (26:2)

Editorial

Guest Editorial

Articles

• Family Caregivers of Palliative Cancer Patients at Home: The puzzle of pain management ANITA MEHTA, S. ROBIN COHEN, FRANCO A. CARNEVALE, HÉLÈNE EZER, and FRANCINE DUCHARME P.78
• Quality of Life in Terminally Ill Cancer Patients: Contributors and content validity of instruments JAVAD SHAHIDI, NADINE BERNIER, and S. ROBIN COHEN P.88
• Quality of Life and Symptom Burden in Cancer Patients Admitted to an Acute Palliative Care Unit JENNIFER M. JONES, S. ROBIN COHEN, CAMILLA ZIMMERMANN, and GARY RODIN P.94
• It Takes a Whole Community: The contribution of rural hospice volunteers to whole-person palliative care MARGARET MCKEE, MARY LOU KELLEY, MANAL GUIRGUIS-YOUNGER, MICHAEL MACLEAN, and SHEVAUN NADIN P.103
• Skills Training to Support Patients Considering Place of End-of-Life Care: A randomized control trial MARY ANN MURRAY, DAWN STACEY, KEITH G. WILSON, and ANNETTE M. O'CONNOR P.112
• Care Provider Perspectives on End-of-life Care in Long-Term-Care Homes: Implications for whole-person and palliative care JOANIE SIMS-GOULD, ELAINE WIERSMA, LISE ARSENEAU, MARY LOU KELLEY, JEAN KOZAK, SONJA HABJAN, and MICHAEL MACLEAN P.122

Reflections from the Bedside

• Preliminary Outcomes of "The Dementia Difference" Workshop at The Lodge at Broadmead, Victoria, BC NANCY GNAEDINGER, JANICE ROBINSON, AND KATHERINE MURRAY P.130

Reflections on a Book

• The Limits of Hope: The cost to Sontag of being true to herself FRANK BRENNAN P.133

Letter to the Editor

• Re: A New Zealand Perspective on Palliative Care for Mãori MERE KÊPA P.135

Spring 2010 (26:1)

Editorial

Articles

• Completing the Circle: Elders speak about end-of-life care with Aboriginal families in Canada / Mary Hampton, Angelina Baydala, Carrie Bourassa, Kim McKay-McNabb, Cheryl Placsko, Ken Goodwill, Betty McKenna, Pat McNabb, and Roxanne Boekelder p.6
• Adaptation, Dissemination, and Evaluation of a Cancer Palliative Care Curriculum for the Indian Health System / Cheryl Arenella, Bruce Finke, Timothy Domer, Judith S. Kaur, Melanie P. Merriman, and Anita Ousley p.15
• Gathering Information to Develop Palliative Care Programs for Alaska's Aboriginal Peoples / Christine A. DeCourtney, P. Kay Branch, and Karen M. Morgan p.22

Case Report

• A Rainbow Named Samantha (Gentle Waters) / Darlene Grantham p.32

Forum

• Finding a Balanced Approach: Incorporating medicine wheel teachings in the care of Aboriginal people at the end of life / Velna Clarke and Lorraine F. Holtslander p.34
• Working with Elders and Advisers in Aboriginal Palliative Care: A story from the Canadian Pallium Project / Gaye Hanson p.37

Orienteering

• Translating Research into Practice: Developing cross-cultural First Nations palliative care / Natalie St. Pierre-Hansen, Len Kelly, Barb Linkewich, Helen Cromarty, and Roger Walker p.41
• An Integrative Framework for Conducting Palliative Care Research with First Nations Communities / Holly Prince and Mary Lou Kelley p.47

Global Exchange

• A New Zealand Perspective on Palliative Care for Maori / Wendy Margaret Muircroft, Judy McKimm, Leeroy William, and Roderick Duncan MacLeod p.54
• The Living Model: An Australian model for Aboriginal palliative care service delivery with international implications / Pam McGrath 59

Reflections

• Lars's Story / Christine DeCourtney p.65
• Eleanor McMullen's Story / Christine DeCourtney, P. Kay Branch, and Karen M. Morgan p.67

Book Reviews

• Grief in Young Children: A Handbook for Adults / Reviewed by Caprice Knapp p.68
• Grief in Children: A Handbook for Adults (2nd edition) / Reviewed by Caprice Knapp p.68
• Talking with Bereaved People: An Approach for Structured and Sensitive Communication / Reviewed by Joan Beder p.70
• Life in a Hospice: Reflections on Caring for the Dying / Reviewed by Stephen Claxton-Oldfield p.70
• Ethical Issues in Home Health Care (2nd edition) / Reviewed by Constance Dahlin p.71

Winter 2010 (25:4)

Editorial

Articles

• Satisfaction with End-of-Life Care: A longitudinal study of patients and their family caregivers in the last months of life / Daren K. Heyland, Christopher Frank, Joan Tranmer, Nancy Paul, Deborah Pichora, Xuran Jiang, and Andrew Day p.245
• Chronic Palliative Care: Specific practices for Alzheimer?s disease sufferers / Jean-Christophe Mino and Marie-Odile Frattini p.257
• Involvement of Nurses in the Euthanasia Care Process in Flanders (Belgium): An exploration of two perspectives / Yvonne Denier, Bernadette Dierckx de Casterlé, Nele De Bal, and Chris Gastmans p.264
• Understanding the Provision of Palliative Care in the Context of Primary Health Care: Qualitative research findings from a pilot study in a community setting in Chile / Brenda L. Cameron and Anna Santos Salas p.275
• The Israeli Terminally Ill Patient Law of 2005 / Alan B. Jotkowitz and Shimon Glick p.284

Forum

• Home Hospice Care for the Lung Cancer Patient Living Alone: A case report from Japan / Izumi Kawagoe, Mioko Ito, Shinobu Matsuura, and Koh Kawagoe p.289

From the Bedside

• Cradled between Heaven and Earth. A reply to my patient?s family: Why I couldn?t offer active euthanasia when you asked for it / Beverley Smith p.294
• The Fire Hall / Anonymous p.297

Book Review

• Right to Die / Reviewed by Frank Brennan p.299

Autumn 2009 (25:3)

Editorial

Articles

• Experiences and Needs of Bereaved Carers during Palliative and End-of-Life Care for People with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease /Felicity Hasson, Allison Spence, Mary Waldron, George Kernohan, Dorry McLaughlin, Barbara Watson, and Barbara Cochrane p157
• Delirium in Advanced Cancer Leading to Distress in Patients and Family Caregivers /Marlene Z. Cohen, Ellen A. Pace, Guddi Kaur, and Eduardo Bruera p164
• Transdermal Fentanyl as a Front-Line Approach to Moderate-Severe Pain: A meta-analysis of randomized clinical trials /Davide Tassinari, Sergio Sartori, Emiliano Tamburini, Emanuela Scarpi, Paola Tombesi, Carlotta Santelmo, and Marco Maltoni p172
• Defence Mechanisms and Coping Strategies among Caregivers in Palliative Care Units /Marie Timmermann, Despina Naziri, and Anne-Marie Etienne p181
• Bad News for the Patient and the Family? The worst part of being a health care professional / Jacqueline Schmidt Rio-Valle, Mari Paz García Caro, Rafael Montoya Juarez, Diego Prados Peña, Antonio Muñoz Vinuesa, Athanasios Pappous, and Francisco Cruz Quintana p191
• Dealing with Palliative Care Patients? Incomplete Music Therapy Legacies: Reflexive group supervision research / Clare O?Callaghan, Helen Petering, Amy Thomas, and Rebecca Crappsley p197
• The Long-Term Effect of a Population-Based Educational Intervention Focusing on End-of-Life Home Care, Life-Prolongation Treatment, and Knowledge about Palliative Care / Kazuki Sato, Mitsunori Miyashita, Tatsuya Morita, and Masao Suzuki p206

Frontline Dispatch

Global Exchange

Case Report

Abstracts

Summer 2009 (25 :2)

Editorial

Articles

• Living with Advanced Cancer and Short Life Expectancy: Patients' experiences with managing medication / Anne Marit Sand, Janet Harris, Jan Henrik Rosland
• Referrals of Cancer versus Non-cancer Patients to a Palliative Care Consult Team: Do they differ? / Boris Cantin, Laura E. Rothuisen, Thierry Buclin, José Pereira, Claudia Mazzocato
• Might Massage or Guided Meditation Provide "Means to a Better End"? Primary outcomes from an efficacy trial with patients at the end of life / Lois Downey, Paula Diehr, Leanna J. Standish, Donald L. Patrick, Leila Kozak, Douglass Fisher, Sean Congdon, William E. Lafferty

Forum

• Lessons in Death and Dying / Katherine Arnup
• Using Philosophy to Help Manage the Fear of Death / Stephen Buetow, Carol McAllum, Ross Upshur
• Moving Culture beyond Ethnicity: Examining dying in hospital through a cultural lens / Lisa S. Chan, Mary Ellen Macdonald, S. Robin Cohen

Front Line Dispatch

• Enhancing Interprofessional Education in End-of-life Care: An interdisciplinary exploration of death and dying in literature / Susan Brajtman, Pippa Hall, Peter Barnes

Global Exchange

• Innovative Pediatric Palliative Care Programs in Four Countries / Caprice Knapp, Vanessa Madden, Joan Marston, Rosemary Midson, Andrea Murphy, Elizabeth Shenkman
• East Meets West. Spirituality Training in Palliative Care: A Taiwanese-Australian partnership / Douglas T. Bridge, Ming-Liang Lai

Case Report

• Treatment of Medication Intolerance with Lactase in a Complex Palliative Care Patient / Regis Vaillancourt, Rabiah Siddiqui, Chris Vadeboncoeur, Marion Rattray, Doris Lariviere

Reflections from the Bedside

• A Final Toast / Alex MacLean

Book Reviews

• Palliative Care in the European Union / reviewed by Henk Ten Have
• Validation Techniques for Dementia Care / reviewed by Barbara M. Usher
• Effective Grief and Bereavement Support / reviewed by Barbara Brown
• The Creative Arts in Palliative Care / reviewed by Elizabeth Hall

Spring 2009 (25:1)

Editorial

Articles

• Palliative Sedation at Home / Ora S. Rosengarten, Yonat Lamed, Timna Zisling, Ayelet Feigin, Jeremy M. Jacobs
• Patients' Experiences of Physical Therapy / Ylva Dahlin, Susanne Heiwe
• The "Good" Rural Death: A report of an ethnographic study in Alberta, Canada / Donna M. Wilson, Lise Fillion, Roger Thomas, Christopher Justice, Paramjit P. Bhardwah, Anne-Marie Veillette
• Volunteers in Palliative Care Make a Difference / Katrien G. Luijkx, Jos M.G.A. Schols
• A Quality End of Life from a Palliative Care Patient's Perspective / Iris Gourdji, Lynne McVey, Margaret Purden
• A Palliative Care Intervention in Forgiveness Therapy for Elderly Terminally Ill Cancer Patients / Mary J. Hansen, Robert D. Enright, Thomas W. Baskin, John Klatt
• What is a Good Death? Stories from Palliative Care / Jennifer D de Jong, Linda E. Clarke

Forum

• Caregiver Empowerment and Music Therapy: Through the eyes of bereaved caregivers of advanced cancer patients / Lucanne Magill

Book Reviews

• Freedom to Choose: How to make end-of-life decisions on your own terms
• Psychosocial Issues in Palliative Care
• Final Conversations: Helping the living and the dying talk to each other

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