Highlights of the July Issue of the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management

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

To access the articles, you must subscribe to JPSM or be a member of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM). For further information on the Academy, call 847.375.4712 or visit aahpm.org.

Submitted by: David Casarett, MD MA, Senior Associate Editor, JPSM

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