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

Listed below are a few articles from the most recent issue of the journal:

Original Articles

Gaps in Provision of Primary and Specialty Palliative Care in the Acute Care Setting by Race and Ethnicity
Elizabeth Chuang, Aluko A. Hope, Katherine Allyn, Elissa Szalkiewicz, Brittany Gary, and Michelle N. Gong

Supply-Side Differences Only Modestly Associated with Inpatient Hospitalizations Among Medicare Beneficiaries in the Last Six Months of Life
Elizabeth L. Crouch, Janice C. Probst, Kevin J. Bennett, and James W. Hardin

To Intubate of Not to Intubate: Emergency Medicine Physicians’ Perspective on Intubating Critically Ill, Terminal Cancer Patients
Kenneth Kim, Bharath Charkravarthy, Craig Anderson, and Slomon Liao

A Randomized Clinical Trial of Caregiver-Delivered Reflexology for Symptom Management During Breast Cancer Treatment
Gwen Wyatt, Alla Sikorskii, Irena Tesnjak, Dawn Frambles, Amanda Holstrom, Zhehui Luo, David Victorson, and Deimante Tamkus

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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