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Article title

Issue

Adolescence: Palliative care in adolescence

2.2

Advance directives – the ethical pros and cons

10.3

Africa: Making it real: advances in palliative care in Africa

15.1

Aging: Aging, pain and palliative care

13.3

AIDS: Developing palliative care services for patients with AIDS

4.4

AIDS: Octreotide in treatment of AIDS-related symptoms

1.1

AIDS: The changing face of terminal care for AIDS

9.6

AIDS: The management of AIDS dementia complex

5.4

Akathisia: Acute akathisia in palliative care

12.1

Albania: The development of terminal care in Albania

8.6

Anaemia and blood transfusions in palliative care

10.2

Anaemia: The management of anaemia

6.5

Analgesia: A new 24-hour morphine hydrogel suppository

7.5

Analgesia: A new treatment option for chronic cancer pain

1.1

Analgesia: An overview of opioids in palliative care: part 1

13.6

Analgesia: Analgesic blocks in palliative care

2.3

Analgesia: Analgesic use in patients with renal failure

7.6

Analgesia: Assessment and treatment of pain in children in palliative care

1.1

Analgesia: Cannabis and pain c

11.6

Analgesia: Conversion formula for transdermal fentanyl

5.3

Analgesia: End-of-life patient-controlled analgesia at home

12.1

Analgesia: Gabapentin as an analgesic

8.2

Analgesia: International control of opioids for medical use

4.6

Analgesia: Intraspinal opioids and local anaesthetics for cancer pain

1.4

Analgesia: Is corticosteroid prescribing appropriate in palliative care?

13.5

Analgesia: Is the WHO analgesic ladder active or archaic?

15.4

Analgesia: Latin American survey on the treatment of cancer pain

13.6

Analgesia: Managing phantom limb pain

13.2

Analgesia: Methadone: an alternative conversion regime

9.3

Analgesia: Methadone: the analgesic

12.5

Analgesia: Modified-release opioids

8.4

Analgesia: Morphine – doctors’ beliefs and the myths

7.5

Analgesia: Neurolytic coeliac plexus block in the treatment of abdominal cancer pain

11.4

Analgesia: Neurotoxic effects of opioids

3.4

Analgesia: NSAIDs: are they effective in treating cancer pain?

11.1

Analgesia: Opioid analgesia: new insights

13.5

Analgesia: Opioids and the control of breathing: what do we know?

13.2

Analgesia: Oral ketamine in patients with difficult cancer pain

12.2

Analgesia: Oral transmucosal fentanyl citrate for the management of breakthrough pain

8.1

Analgesia: Oxycodone: a review of the literature

8.3

Analgesia: Pain therapy in Pancoast’s syndrome

2.4

Analgesia: Patient-controlled analgesia in cancer pain

3.3

Analgesia: Rapid opioid titration in severe cancer pain

12.1

Analgesia: Recommendations for the use of non-analgesic drugs in palliative care

10.6

Analgesia: Sustained-release morphine sulphate in cancer pain

9.4

Analgesia: Syringe drivers and subcutaneous sites: a review

13.4

Analgesia: The modern history of morphine use in cancer pain

12.4

Analgesia: The physiology of somatostatin and its synthetic analogue, octreotide

1.1

Analgesia: The role of anticonvulsants in palliative care

4.1

Analgesia: The role of ketamine in pain control

3.4

Analgesia: The role of nebulised drugs in palliating respiratory symptoms of malignant disease

2.1

Analgesia: The treatment of morphine-induced constipation

5.1

Analgesia: The use of antitussive drugs in terminally ill patients

11.6

Analgesia: The use of implantable pumps in palliative care

13.2

Analgesia: The use of levomepromazine in palliative care

12.1

Analgesia: The use of methadone in the care of the dying

4.5

Analgesia: The use of NSAIDs in patients with cancer: just how safe is it?

8.5

Analgesia: Tramadol – a step towards the ideal analgesic?

2.2

Analgesia: Tramadol and cancer pain

9.2

Analgesia: Transdermal opioid control of cancer pain

3.4

Analgesia: Treatment of bone pain with bisphosphonates

1.4

Analgesia: WHO analgesic ladder – or lift?

10.3

Anorexia: Treating cancer patients with anorexia-cachexia syndrome

14.5

Anorexia: Treating the anorexia of cancer

5.6

Antibiotics: Antibiotic choices in palliative care

4.1

Antibiotics: Antibiotics and palliative care

13.1

Antibiotics: How effective are parenteral antibiotics in hospice patients?

15.3

Architecture: Palliative care and architecture: from hospital to people

5.4

Art: Understanding children’s pain through drawings

7.6

Arts: All-consuming pain

8.6

Arts: An innovative, practical course in the medical humanities

8.5

Arts: Ars moriendi: images of death in Spanish art

4.5

Arts: Bringing the arts to the bedside

11.6

Arts: Creativity and coming of age

7.4

Arts: Empathy, creativity and the arts in palliative care

6.3

Arts: Providing scope for creative growth in palliative care

8.4

Arts: Teaching through artwork in terminal care

9.1

Ascites: A review of the management of malignant ascites

12.2

Ascites: Controlling malignant ascites

8.5

Aspiration, pleural: Improving aspiration technique

8.2

Assessment tools: Examining the comfort of the unconscious patient

9.6

Assessment tools: Methods for assessing physical functioning in cancer patients

15.4

Assessment tools: Monitoring a hospital palliative care team using the PACA tool

13.2

Assessment tools: Symptom assessment in terminally ill cancer patients

15.2

Assessment: Patient self-assessment or carer assessment: are these the only options?

7.1

Attitudes to death: Mortality, metaphors and the media

7.6

Attitudes to death: Now and at the hour of our death: the Ars moriendi and modern dying

8.5

Audit of deaths: Ensuring that patients are able to die a good death

11.4

Audit: Access to specialist palliative care for cancer patients

13.2

Audit: Auditing palliative care in general practice

3.3

Audit: Organisational audit for specialist palliative care services

1.4

Auditory hallucinations: How common are auditory hallucinations in palliative care?

11.3

Behavioural problems in palliative care patients

11.2

Belgium: Palliative care associations – the Belgian experience

10.6

Belgium: Palliative day care in Belgium: first observations

12.4

Belgium: Specialist palliative care training in Belgium

6.4

Benefits: An audit of welfare benefits advocacy services in a hospice

13.1

Bereavement – a social phenomenon?

8.6

Bereavement in the classroom

11.1

Bereavement visiting in the community

12.2

Bereavement: A metal strongbox – a metaphor for use in bereavement work

8.1

Bereavement: A skills course for volunteer bereavement counsellors

15.3

Bereavement: Bereaved children’s support groups: where are we now?

7.4

Bereavement: Children and bereavement – what are the issues?

1.1

Bereavement: Death, bereavement and stepfamilies

11.5

Bereavement: Developing a multi-agency bereavement service

9.4

Bereavement: Grief in children

2.2

Bereavement: Group work with bereaved children

1.3

Bereavement: Helping children work through their grief

3.2

Bereavement: Hospice-based groups for bereaved siblings

3.1

Bereavement: Involving volunteers in bereavement counselling

5.2

Bereavement: Loss and palliative care

14.1

Bereavement: Saying goodbye

2.1

Bereavement: Supporting bereaved people with intellectual disabilities

12.6

Bereavement: Symbolic death as grief therapy

3.1

Bereavement: Symbolic death as grief therapy: Part II

3.2

Bereavement: Teaching children to understand death and grieving

9.6

Bereavement: Teamwork with families facing bereavement

1.4

Bereavement: The case study masterclass: Case 14. A complex bereavement after the death of a patient with learning difficulties

11.2

Bereavement: The provision of grief services by primary care physicians

13.4

Bereavement: The role of bereavement counselling in hospice work

7.1

Bereavement: UK bereavement services for children and young people

12.5

Bereavement: Working with children facing bereavement as individuals

1.2

Bisphosphonates: The use of bisphosphonates in palliative care

7.2

Body image: Body image and the impact of terminal disease

4.5

Bone metastases: Imaging of skeletal metastases

6.3

Bone metastases: The diagnosis and treatment of bone metastases

14.2

Book review: Death and dying: a sociological introduction

14.6

Book review: The common sense guide to improving palliative care

15.4

Bowel obstruction: Malignant bowel obstruction

8.4

Bowel obstruction: Malignant bowel obstruction in advanced and terminal cancer patients

1.1

Brain tumour: The case study masterclass: Case 28. Another challenging patient with a primary brain tumour

13.5

Brain tumours: Convulsive seizures in patients with brain tumours

14.1

Brain tumours: Malignant brain tumours and palliative care

9.1

Brain tumours: The case study masterclass: Case 8. Is palliative care always helpful?

10.2

Breakthrough pain: Realising unmet needs in breakthrough pain

14.1

Breakthrough pain: The management of breakthrough cancer pain: is current practice best practice?

13.1

Burn-out: Suffering – a problem that also affects nurses

10.2

Burnout – what is at stake?

2.1

Burnout: Recent research into staff stress in palliative care

4.3

Cambodia: A palliative care unit for AIDS and cancer sufferers in Cambodia

13.6

Canada: Palliative care in Canada

5.4

Canada: The evolution of palliative medicine education in Canada

6.6

Cancer: Paracetamol allergy in a patient with advanced cancer

15.1

Cancer: Prognosis in patients with advanced incurable cancer

14.4

Cancer: The cancer care triangle

11.3

Carcinoma: The case study masterclass: Case 1. Carcinoma of the gastric fundus

9.1

Cardiac failure: Breathlessness and fatigue in cardiac failure

11.1

Care homes: Raising standards for elderly people dying in care homes

14.6

Care homes: Supporting palliative care in care homes – the way forward?

12.2

Care pathway: Developing an integrated care pathway for the dying patient

4.6

Caring for the body at the end of life

12.5

Caring: Keeping the balance

9.1

Caring: Taking care

7.1

Cerebral metastases: The management of cerebral metastases

5.1

Chemotherapy: The case study masterclass: Case 30. And baby came too: Lucy’s story

14.1

Chemotherapy: the palliative role

5.5

Chile: Palliative care in Chile

4.4

Cicely Saunders – a voice for the voiceless

12.5

Cicely Saunders: A weekend at St Christopher’s

1.2

Clinical supervision can benefit palliative care

15.4

Colombia: Why dying at home indicates unmet needs in Colombia

15.3

Colon: The case study masterclass:. Case 2. Adenocarcinoma of the sigmoid colon

9.2

Comment: A long and winding road

14.6

Comment: Equity of access

15.1

Comment: Losing the label of elitism

14.4

Comment: Love and loss: a timely tribute

14.5

Comment: New year, new direction?

14.2

Comment: Respecting culture near the end of life

15.2

Comment: Who’s afraid of palliative care?

15.3

Communication – what works?, Family information and