Table of Contents

Section 1: Cultural Issues in Palliative Care
1: Carleen Brenneis and Eduardo Bruera: Models for the Delivery of Palliative Care: The Canadian Model
2: Marcos Gomez Sancho: Models for the Delivery of Palliative Care: The Spanish Model
3: Mariela Bertolino: Models for the Delivery of Palliative Care in Developing Countries
Section II: Palliative Care in Geriatrics
1: R. Sean Morrison and Diane Meier: Palliative Care and Geriatrics: Is a Special Model of Care Needed?
2: Yosuke Uchitomi: Truth Telling in Cancer Care: The Japanese Perspective
3: Akira Akabayashi and Raymond Voltz: Advance Directives in Different Cultures
4: Wendy Stein: Assessment of Symptoms in the Cognitively Impaired
Section IV: Outcomes Research in Palliative Care
1: S. Robin Cohen: Quality of Life as an Outcome in Palliative Care: What Is It and How Do We Measure It?
2: Laurie Lyckholm and Thomas J. Smith: Economic Outcomes and Palliative Care
3: Franco De Conno and Cinzia Martini: Symptom Assessment Outcomes in Home-Based Palliative Care
Section V: Opioid Tolerance: Reality or Myth?
1: Leia Phioanh Nghiemphu and Russell K. Portenoy: Opioid Tolerance: Clinical Perspective
2: Sebastiano Mercadante: Problems with Opioid Dose Escalation in Cancer Pain: Differential Diagnosis and Management Strategies
Section VI: Pain and Other Symptomes: Treatment Challenges
1: Peter Lawlor, Jose Pereira, and Eduardo Bruera: Dose Ratios Among Different Opioids: Underlying Issues and an Update on the Use of the Equianalgesic Table
2: Magnus Sjberg and Narinder Rawal: Intraspinal Pain Therapy in Palliative Care
3: William Breitbart: The Diagnosis and Treatment of Delirium in the Terminally Ill

Reviews

In summary this book provides a wealth of valuable information on some extremely important topics in palliative care. Without exception the chapters manage to inform and stimulate the reader and are applicable to palliative care in a wide variety of settings. The editors have produced a superb user-friendly book that deserves a place in every palliative care library and should be recommended to all palliative care clinicians.
*Progress in Palliative Care, Volume 9, Number 6, 2001*