Evidence-Based Practice of Palliative Medicine: A Comprehensive Guide

Optimize your patient care with the only book that uses a practical, question-and-answer approach to address evidence-based decision making in palliative medicine. Dr. Nathan E. Goldstein and Dr. R. Sean Morrison provide you with the tools to evaluate the available evidence alongside current practice guidelines, enabling you to provide optimal care for patients and families dealing with serious illness.

Confidently Navigate Clinical Challenges

Explore interventions, assessment techniques, treatment modalities, recommendations, and guidelines, all with a focus on patient and family-centered care. This comprehensive guide equips you to tackle clinical challenges with confidence, ensuring the best possible outcomes for your patients.

Build Best Practices from High-Quality Evidence

Gain access to high-quality evidence gathered by multiple leading authorities, and make informed decisions efficiently with treatment algorithms included throughout the book. This valuable resource enables you to build a context for best practices, ensuring your patients receive the highest standard of care.

Access a Wealth of Resources

Benefit from a fully searchable online version, available at www.expertconsult.com, and stay up-to-date with the latest research and guidelines in palliative medicine.

Expert Endorsement

“The symptom management chapters are especially thorough and easy to translate into clinical decision-making, and the medical chapters present useful algorithms for clinical care. Each chapter also contains a summary of take-home points along with a useful list of references. This book combines a comprehensive yet concise approach to evidence-based palliative care. It is easy to navigate and references relevant, up-to-date data; it will be a useful tool both in the office and in the field for current palliative care practitioners.” – Bonnie Chen, MD (Harvard Medical School), Doody 5 stars!

Book Details
Pages: 528
Publisher: Saunders
Publication Date: December 17, 2012
Language: English
ISBN-10: 143773796X
ISBN-13: 978-1437737967
eText ISBN: 9781455748334