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  <titleInfo>
    <title>Palliative Practices: An Interdisciplinary Approach</title>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Kuebler, Kim K.</namePart>
    <role>
      <roleTerm authority="marcrelator" type="text">creator</roleTerm>
    </role>
  </name>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Davis, Mellar P.</namePart>
  </name>
  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Moore, Crystal Dea.</namePart>
  </name>
  <typeOfResource>text</typeOfResource>
  <originInfo>
    <place>
      <placeTerm type="text">St. Louis, Mo</placeTerm>
    </place>
    <publisher>Elsevier Mosby</publisher>
    <dateIssued>2005</dateIssued>
    <edition>Nil</edition>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <physicalDescription>
    <extent>xix, 491 p.  ill. ;</extent>
  </physicalDescription>
  <abstract>The first book of its kind to examine the integration of palliative interventions from a disease-specific approach</abstract>
  <tableOfContents>Unit I. Issues specific to palliative care. Palliative care perspectives / Barry M. Kinzbrunner -- Advance care planning / Crystal Dea Moore -- Evidence-based interventions / Dana N. Rutledge -- Pharmacology / Mellar P. Davis -- The interface of sleep / Kathy P. Parker -- Unit II. Specific disease states and symptom management. Cardiovascular / Nancy M. Albert -- Pulmonary / James Varga, Josua Cox -- Nephrology / Michael Germain, Lewis M. Cohen -- Oncology / Mary Magee Gullatte, Roberta Kaplow, Debra E. Heidrich -- Cancer pain / Mellar P. Davis, Jan L. Frandsen -- Neurology / Mellar P. Davis ... [et al.] -- Unit III. The dying process, grief, and bereavement. Ethical issues / Tom Tomlinson -- Cultural and spiritual issues / Diane B. Loseth ... [et al.] -- The dying process / Catherine Vena, Kim Kuebler, Sandra E. Schrader -- Grief and bereavement / Helen Kathleen Brophy McHale -- Appendixes. Medications by disorder / Kim Kuebler, James Varga, Mellar P. Davis -- Medication routes and metabolism / Kim Kuebler, James Varga, Mellar P. Davis -- Palliative care assessment tools / Marilyn O'Mallon, Kim Kuebler -- Websites / Kim Kuebler.</tableOfContents>
  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Bereavement</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Patient Care Management</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="mesh">
    <topic>Terminal Care</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="rvm">
    <topic>Soins palliatifs</topic>
  </subject>
  <subject authority="rvm">
    <topic>Soins en phase terminale</topic>
  </subject>
  <classification authority="ddc">615.842 KUE</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">0323028217</identifier>
  <identifier type="isbn">9780323028219</identifier>
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