Innovations in End-of-Life Care
an international journal of leaders in end-of-life care

Selected articles by contributors to this issue:

Du Pen S, Du Pen AR, Polissar N, Hansberry J, Kraybill BM, Stillman M, Panke J, Everly R, Syrjala K. Implementing guidelines for cancer pain management: Results of a randomized controlled clinical trial. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 1999;17(1): 361-370.

Du Pen SL, Williams AR, Feldman RK. Epidurograms in the management of patients with long-term epidural catheters. Regional Anesthesia. 1996;21(1):61-7.

Du Pen SL, Williams AR. The dilemma of conversion from systemic to epidural morphine: a proposed conversion tool for treatment of cancer pain. Pain. 1994;56(1):113-8.

Strumpf M, Zenz M, Donner, B. Germany: Status of cancer pain and palliative care. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 1996; 12 (2): 109-11.

Zenz M, Willweber-Strumpf A. Opiophobia and cancer pain in Europe. Lancet. 1993;341:1075-6.

Zenz M, Zenz T, Tryba M, Strumpf M. Severe undertreatment of cancer pain: A 3-year survey of the German situation. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 1995;10(3):187-91.

Zenz M. Pain therapy only for specialists or general responsibility? Z Arztl Fortbild Qualitatissich. 1998; 92(1):3 [in German].

Other selected citations:

Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Clinical Practice Guideline: Management of Cancer Pain (AHCPR Publication No. 94-0592). Rockville, MD: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health Services, Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, 1994. For print copies, contact AHCPR Publications Clearinghouse, P.O. Box 8547, Silver Spring, MD 20907; or call (800) 358-9295. A hypermedia presentation of the guideline is available on-line at: http://www.statsci.com/talaria/talaria.html

American Pain Society. Principles of Analgesic Use in the Treatment of Acute Pain and Cancer Pain. 4th Edition. Glenview, IL: American Pain Society, 1999.

Carr DB and Addison RG. Pain in HIV/AIDS. Washington, DC: France-USA Pain Association. 1994.

Colleau SM and Joranson DE. Fear of addiction: confronting a barrier to cancer pain relief. Cancer Pain Release. 1998:11(3): 1-4,8.

Doyle D, Hanks GWC, and MacDonald N. (eds.). Oxford Textbook of Palliative Medicine. Chapter 9: Symptom Management. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1998. pp. 247-774.

Farber S, Anderson W, Bramden C, Isenhower P, Lanier K, O'Reilly L. Improving cancer pain management through a system wide commitment. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 1998;1(4):377-385.

Ferrell BR, Dean GE, Grant M & Coluzzi P. An institutional comitment to pain management. Journal of Clinical Oncology. 1995;13(9):2158-2165.

Fins JJ. Acts of omission and commission in pain management: The ethics of naloxone use. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 1999; 17(2):120-124.

Foley K. A 44-year-old woman with severe pain at the end of life. Journal of the American Medical Association. 1999;281(20):1937-1945.

Foley KM. "The World Health Organization Program in Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care." In Proceedings of the 7th World Congress on Pain: Progress in Pain Research and Management. Vol. 2, edited by GI Gebhart, DL Hammond, and TS Jensen, 59-74. Seattle, WA: IASP Press, 1994.

Imedio EL. Enfermera en cuidados paliativos (The nurse in palliative care). Madrid: Editorial Médica Panamerica. 1998.

Johnson SH., ed. Symposium: Legal and Regulatory Issues in Pain Management. Journal of Law, Medicine, and Ethics. 1998 Winter; 26(4):265-352.

Levin ML, Berry JI, and Leiter J. Management of pain in terminally ill patients: Physician reports of knowledge, attitudes, and behavior. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 1998;15 (1): 27-40.

McCaffery M, Pasero C. Pain: Clinical Manual. 2nd Edition. St. Louis: Mosby, 1999.

Portenoy RK, Bruera E. Topics in palliative care: Volume one. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

Rischer JB & Childress SB. Cancer pain management: Pilot implementation of the AHCPR guideline in Utah. Journal on Quality Improvement. 1996;22(10):683-700.

Special Section on Measuring Quality of Care at Life's End. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 1999; 17 (2):73-124.

Weissman DE, Dahl JW, Beasley JW. The cancer pain role model program of the Wisconsin Cancer Pain Initiative. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. 1993; 8(1):29-35.

Wisconsin Cancer Pain Initiative. Building an Institutional Commitment to Pain Management: The Mayday Resource Manual for Improvement. UW Board of Regents. Madison, WI. 1996.

World Health Organization Programme on Cancer Pain Control. Relevant publications (with abstracts at http://who-pcc.iarc.fr/Publications/Publications.html) include:

Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care in Children. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 1998.

Symptom Relief in Terminal Illness. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, July 1998.

Cancer Pain Relief - Second Edition. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 1996.

Cancer Pain Relief and Palliative Care. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 1990.