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Inflamm Bowel Dis
March 2025
Leeds Gastroenterology Institute, St. James's University Hospital, Leeds, UK.
Palliat Med
March 2025
School of Medicine, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Background: Constipation is common in people with advanced cancer and is associated with significant morbidity and health economic burden, but it is often sub-optimally managed. Despite international consensus diagnostic criteria for functional and opioid-induced constipation (Rome IV diagnostic criteria), the term 'constipation' means different things to different people, impacting assessment, diagnosis and management.
Aim: To investigate the association between persons with advanced cancer self-reporting of constipation, response to the Rome IV diagnostic criteria statements for opioid-induced constipation and differences according to personal demographics.
Fam Pract
February 2025
Department of Palliative and Supportive Care, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, 2-1-1 Amakubo, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8576, Japan.
Purpose: Japan has insufficient palliative care specialists, so there are calls for a palliative care consultation system to aid primary care physicians. Community-based palliative care may require clarification on the division of tasks and responsibilities. Primary care physicians' needs specific to palliative care are also ambiguous.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Pain control following Nuss thoracoplasty remains a challenge. Cryoanalgesia of the intercostal nerves has been demonstrated to reduce postoperative pain in these patients. The objective of this study was to understand how and how widely cryoanalgesia is used in pediatric patients undergoing funnel chest surgery in Spain.
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