Methadone and neuropathic cancer pain subcomponents: a prospective cohort pilot study.

Unlabelled: Forty per cent of cancer pain associate neuropathic and nociceptive pain simultaneously, and refractory pain affects 15% of cancer pain. Methadone is an effective opioid in treating nociceptive pain and could have an effect on neuropathic pain. Uncertainty remains on its effects on the different subcomponents of neuropathic pain.

Transcultural Validation of the French Version of the Modified Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale: The ESAS12-F.

Cancer-related physical symptoms can decrease patients' overall quality of life and are often underdiagnosed. The Edmonton Symptom Assessment Scale (ESAS) is widely used in palliative care for cancer patients to easily assess cancer patients' symptoms. It has been often modified, adding symptoms and explanations, and translated into many languages.

Inequalities in Financial Distress, Symptoms, and Quality of Life Among Patients with Advanced Cancer in France and the U.S.

Background: Financial distress (FD) is common among patients with advanced cancer. Our purpose was to compare the frequency and intensity of FD and its associations with symptom distress and quality of life (QOL) in these patients in France and the U.S.

The perceptions and experiences of osteopathic treatment among cancer patients in palliative care: a qualitative study.

Purpose: This research aimed to explore the perceptions and experiences of cancer patients receiving osteopathic treatment as a complementary therapy when it is used in addition to conventional treatment for cancer pain.

Methods: This qualitative study employed semi structured interviews of cancer patients in a palliative care unit in Lyon, France, who received treatment from an osteopath alongside their conventional cancer treatment. We analysed data using grounded theory and qualitative methods.

Cancer Patients Dying in the Intensive Care Units and Access to Palliative Care.

Background: In France, cancer has become the leading cause of death. Intensive care units (ICU) focus on survival, which may not be an appropriate setting to provide palliative care (PC) as needed by cancer patients and families.

Objective: To describe the cancer patients who died in the ICU in 2010 in a French academic medical center.

Decisional control preferences of patients with advanced cancer receiving palliative care.

Unlabelled: ABSTRACTObjective:Understanding patients' decisional control preferences (DCPs) is important to improving the quality of care and the satisfaction of patients who have advanced cancer with their care. In addition to passive decisional control (i.e.

Financial distress in patients with advanced cancer.

Purpose: We examined the frequency and severity of financial distress (FD) and its association with quality of life (QOL) and symptoms among patients with advanced cancer in France.

Design: In this cross-sectional study, 143 patients with advanced cancer were enrolled. QOL was assessed using the Functional Assessment of Cancer General (FACT-G) and symptoms assessed using Edmonton Assessment System (ESAS) and Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale (HADS).

Barriers to venipuncture-induced pain prevention in cancer patients: a qualitative study.

Background: Procedural pain reduces the quality of life of cancer patients. Although there are recommendations for its prevention, there are some obstacles for its management. The purpose of this study was to analyze the barriers to procedural pain prophylaxis in cancer patients reflecting the views of the nurses.

Burnout among physicians in palliative care: Impact of clinical settings.

Objective: Burnout syndrome is a work-related professional distress. Palliative care physicians often have to deal with complex end-of-life situations and are at risk of presenting with burnout syndrome, which has been little studied in this population. Our study aims to identify the impact of clinical settings (in a palliative care unit (PCU) or on a palliative care mobile team (PCMT)) on palliative care physicians.

Perception of naturopathy for female patients with metastatic gynecological cancer: A qualitative study.

Objective: Women with gynecological cancer have been reported as very high users of complementary medicine. The goal of our study was to explore the perceptions of patients with an advanced gynecological cancer who use naturopathy as complementary medicine. We were looking more specifically at patients' opinions on the effect of naturopathy on their quality of life and its relation to conventional oncological treatments.

[Audit: medical record documentation among advanced cancer patients].

Medical record documentation of cancer inpatients is a core component of continuity of care. The main goal of the study was an assessment of medical record documentation in a palliative care unit (PCU) using a targeted clinical audit based on deceased inpatients' charts. Stage 1 (2010): a clinical audit of medical record documentation assessed by a list of items (diagnosis, prognosis, treatment, power of attorney directive, advance directives).