Listed below are a few articles from the most recent issue of the journal:
Special Series on Measuring What Matters
Assessing Emotional Suffering in Palliative Care: Use of a Structured Note Template to Improve Documentation
Sangeeta Lamba, Ana Berlin, Rebecca Goett, Christopher B. Ponce, Bart Holland, Susanne Walther, and the AAHPM Research Committee Writing Group
Original Articles
Dexamethasone for Dyspnea in Cancer Patients: A Pilot Double-Blind, Randomized, Controlled Trial
David Hui, Kelly Kilgore, Susan Frisbee-Hume, Minjeong Park, Anne Tsao, Marvin Delgado Guay, Charles Lu, William William, Jr., Katherine Pisters, George Eapen, Frank Fossella, Sapna Amin, and Eduardo Bruera
OnabotulinumtoxinA Improves Pain in Patients with Post-Stroke Spasticity: Findings from a Randomized, Double-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Trial
Jörg Wissel, Vaidyanathan Ganapathy, Anthony B. Ward, Jörgen Borg, Per Ertzgaard, Christoph Herrmann, Anders Haggstrom, Mohamed Sakel, Julia Ma, Rozalina Dimitrova, Antony Fulford-Smith, and Patrick Gillard
Fentanyl Pectin Nasal Spray versus Oral Morphine in Doses Proportional to the Basal Opioid Regimen for the Management of Breakthrough Cancer Pain: A Comparative Study
Sebastiano Mercadante, Federica Aielli, Claudio Adile, Andrea Costanzi, and Alessandra Casuccio
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Submitted by: David Casarett, MD MA, Senior Associate Editor, JPSM