List of contributors 1. The development of hospice and palliative care Kate Kirk 2. Palliative care as a public health issue Irene J. Higginson and Massimo Costantini 3. Palliative care as a primary care issue Scott A. Murray, Sebastien Moine, and Kirsty Boyd 4. The future of palliative medicine Charles F. Von Gunten and Irene J. Higginson 5. Palliative care and supportive care Eduardo Bruera 6. Ethics in the practice of palliative care Nelia Jain and James A. Tulsky 7. Undergraduate education in palliative medicine Linh My Thi Nguyen 8. Graduate education for nonspecialists Fiona Rawlinson and Ilora G. Finlay 9. Challenges of research in palliative and supportive medicine Irene J. Higginson 10. The population: Who are the subjects in palliative medicine research? Claudia Bausewein and Fliss E.M. Murtagh 11. Study designs in palliative medicine Massimo Costantini 12. Outcome measurement in palliative care Joan M. Teno 13. Ethics in palliative care research Jonathan Koffman and Emel Yorganci 14. Adoption of palliative care: The engineering of organizational change Winford E. (Dutch) Holland and Eduardo Bruera 15. Principles of measuring the financial outcomes of specialist palliative care programs J. Brian Cassel and Thomas J. Smith 16. Population-based needs assessment for patients and those important to them, such as families Irene J. Higginson and Richard Harding 17. Models of palliative care delivery Eduardo Bruera and Jessica H. Brown 18. Home palliative care Heather Grant and Dana Lustbader 19. Palliative care unit Karen Macmillan, Kelley Fournier, Beth Tupala, and Kim Crowe Mackinnon 20. Multidimensional patient assessment Marvin Omar Delgado Guay and Alexander Harding 21. Tools for pain and symptom assessment Victor T. Chang 22. Quality of life assessment in palliative care Richard Sawatzky and S. Robin Cohen 23. Pathophysiology of chronic pain Sebastiano Mercadante 24. Causes and mechanisms of pain in palliative care patients Michal Kubiak, Marieberta Vidal, Suresh K. Reddy 25. Opioid analgesics Geana Paula Kurita, Stein Kaasa, and Per Sjøgren 26. Assessment and management of opioid side effects Shalini Dalal 27. Adjuvant analgesic medications Jessica Geiger 28. Alternative routes for systemic opioid delivery Raffaele Giusti, Monica Bosco, Maurizio Lucchesi, and Carla Ida Ripamonti 29. Interventional pain procedures in palliative care Po-Yi Paul Su, Ann Cai Shah, and Sarah Gebauer 30. Pain management in pediatrics Kevin Madden 31. Pain in the older adult Linh My Thi Nguyen and Michelle Peck 32. Neuropathic pain Paolo Marchettini, Fabio Formaglio, and Marco Lacerenza 33. Bone cancer pain and skeletal complications Yoko Tarumi 34. Breakthrough (episodic) pain in cancer patients Shirley H. Bush 35. Somatic symptoms, symptom clusters, and symptom burden David V. Nelson and Diane M. Novy 36. Pain in patients with alcohol and drug dependence Leah Couture, Malisa Dang, and Danielle Noreika 37. Cachexia–anorexia syndrome Paul Zelensky, Mallika Dammalapati, and Egidio Del Fabbro 38. Nausea/vomiting Sebastiano Mercadante 39. Constipation Charu Agrawal and Karina Shih 40. Jaundice Nathan I. Cherny and Norman Levan 41. Malignant bowel obstruction Carla I. Ripamonti, Alexandra M. Easson, and Hans Gerdesh 42. Endoscopic treatment of digestive symptoms Pasquale Spinelli 43. Mechanism, assessment, and management of fatigue Sean Hutchinson, Sriram Yennurajalingam 44. Breathlessness Claudia Bausewein, Sara Booth 45. Other respiratory symptoms (cough, hiccup, and secretions) Regina M. Mackey and Francisco Loaiciga 46. Depression/anxiety Tatsuo Akechi 47. Delirium Yesne Alici and William S. Breitbart 48. Sleep disturbances in advanced cancer patients Delmer A. Montoya and Sriram Yennurajalingam 49. Counseling in palliative care Sophie A. McGilvray and David W. Kissane 50. Hope in end-of-life care Cheryl L. Nekolaichuk 51. Dehydration and rehydration Robin L. Fainsinger 52. Fever, sweats, and hot flashes Ahsan Azhar and Shalini Dalal 53. Pruritus Michael Tang, Katie Taylor, and Andrew Thorns 54. Infections in palliative care Rudolph M. Navari 55. Pediatric palliative wound care: The unique anatomy and physiology of neonatal skin Ann Marie Nie and Joyce M. Black 56 Mouth care Flavio Fusco 57. Fistulas Maurizio Lucchesi, Fabio Fulfaro, Raffaele Giusti, and Carla Ida Ripamonti 58. Assessment and management of lymphedema Ying Guo and Mark V. Schaverien 59. Hypercalcemia Kimberson Tanco and Saima Rashid 60. Hemorrhage Timothy Fuller, Kencee Graves, and Jen-Yu Wei 61. Spinal cord compression Maitry Patel, Adrian Cozma, Edward Chow, and Srinivas Raman 62. Clinical features and management of superior vena cava syndrome Álvaro Sanz, María Luisa del Valle, and Carlos Centeno 63. Acute pain and management Mellar P. Davis 64. Suicide Daniel C. McFarland, Yesne Alici, and William S. Breitbart 65. Cancer: Radiotherapy Adrian Cozma, Maitry Patel, Edward Chow, and Srinivas Raman 66. Chemotherapy, hormonal therapy, targeted agents, and immunotherapy David Hui 67. Integrative medicine in supportive and palliative care Gabriel Lopez, Santhosshi Narayanan, Wenli Liu, and Lorenzo Cohen 68. Neurological diseases Tobias Walbert and Joel Phillips 69. End-stage congestive heart failure Sam Straw, Klaus K. Witte, and Mark T. Kearney 70. Geriatric palliative care Kimberson Tanco and Maxine De La Cruz 71. Advanced chronic obstructive pulmonary disease Daisy J.A. Janssen, Lynn F. Reinke, and J. Randall Curtis 72. Other infectious diseases: Malaria, rabies, tuberculosis Richard Harding, Rene Krause, and Sue Marsden 73. Practical resources for palliative care development in countries with limited resources: An IAHPC perspective Liliana De Lima 74. Prognostic indicators of survival Morena Shkodra, Augusto T. Caraceni, Marco Maltoni, and Caterina Modonesi 75. Palliative sedation Nathan I. Cherny A.M. 76. Staff stress and burnout in palliative care Aimee E. Anderson and Eduardo Bruera 77. Spiritual care Marvin Omar Delgado Guay and Alexander Harding 78. Family caregivers and cultural sensitivity Rony Dev and Ali Haider 79. Bereavement Victoria H. Raveis 80. Children of palliative care patients Estela Beale and Sujin Ann-Yi 81. Neutropenic fever Hiroshi Ishiguro and Harumi Gomi 82. Side effects of radiation therapy Michael Wang, Elizabeth Barnes, and Alysa Fairchild 83. Cardiac and pulmonary toxicities of treatments Marieberta Vidal 84. Oral complications of cancer therapies Siri Beier Jensen and Deborah P. Saunders 85. Dermatologic side effects Jen-Yu Wei and Michael Goodblatt 86. Peripheral neuropathy and neurotoxicity Sheetal Shroff, Akhil Shivaprasad, and Ivo W. Tremont-Lukats 87. Sex and sexuality Mary K. Hughes 88. Managing communication challenges with patients and families Anthony L. Back 89. Supportive and palliative care for patients with HIV infection Richard Harding, Elizabeth J. Chuang, and Peter A. Selwyn 90. Implantable cardiac devices Laura J. Morrison 91. Supportive care for patients with advanced chronic kidney disease Sara N. Davison 92. Palliative care in the emergency department Travis DeVader and Tammie Quest 93. Optimal Symptom Management in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Katie N. Kanter, Allison Kestenbaum, Thomas W. LeBlanc, and Eric J. Roeland 94. The end of therapy: Building the psychosocial and spiritual bridges to survivorship Marvin Omar Delgado-Guay and Paige Farinholt 95. Rehabilitation in the acute and chronic care setting George J. Francis and Ki Y. Shin 96. Long-term cognitive function Asao Ogawa 97. Gonadal functions and reproductive health Koji Kawai, Miyuki Harada, Yutaka Osuga, and Hiroyuki Nishiyama 98. Pulmonary rehabilitation Ryo Kozu Index
