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
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*
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