Ensuring competency in end-of-life care: controlling symptoms. Export

@article{citeulike:3980054, abstract = {BACKGROUND: Palliative medicine is assuming an increasingly important role in patient care. The Education for Physicians in End-of-life Care (EPEC) Project is an ambitious program to increase core palliative care skills for all physicians. It is not intended to transmit specialty level competencies in palliative care. METHOD: The EPEC Curriculum was developed to be a comprehensive syllabus including trainer notes, multiple approaches to teaching the material, slides, and videos of clinical encounters to trigger discussion are provided. The content was developed through a combination of expert opinion, participant feedback and selected literature review. Content development was guided by the goal of teaching core competencies not included in the training of generalist and non-palliative medicine specialist physicians. RESULTS: Whole patient assessment forms the basis for good symptom control. Approaches to the medical management of pain, depression, anxiety, breathlessness (dyspnea), nausea/vomiting, constipation, fatigue/weakness and the symptoms common during the last hours of life are described. CONCLUSION: While some physicians will have specialist palliative care services upon which to call, most in the world will need to provide the initial approaches to symptom control at the end-of-life.}, author = {Ferris, Frank D. and Von Gunten, Charles F. and Emanuel, Linda L.}, citeulike-article-id = {3980054}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12149128}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=12149128}, day = {30}, issn = {1472-684X}, journal = {BMC palliative care}, keywords = {controlling, end-of-life, skills, symptoms, terminal}, month = {July}, number = {1}, posted-at = {2009-01-29 23:10:55}, priority = {2}, title = {Ensuring competency in end-of-life care: controlling symptoms.}, url = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12149128}, volume = {1}, year = {2002} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3980054 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3980054 N2 - BACKGROUND: Palliative medicine is assuming an increasingly important role in patient care. The Education for Physicians in End-of-life Care (EPEC) Project is an ambitious program to increase core palliative care skills for all physicians. It is not intended to transmit specialty level competencies in palliative care. METHOD: The EPEC Curriculum was developed to be a comprehensive syllabus including trainer notes, multiple approaches to teaching the material, slides, and videos of clinical encounters to trigger discussion are provided. The content was developed through a combination of expert opinion, participant feedback and selected literature review. Content development was guided by the goal of teaching core competencies not included in the training of generalist and non-palliative medicine specialist physicians. RESULTS: Whole patient assessment forms the basis for good symptom control. Approaches to the medical management of pain, depression, anxiety, breathlessness (dyspnea), nausea/vomiting, constipation, fatigue/weakness and the symptoms common during the last hours of life are described. CONCLUSION: While some physicians will have specialist palliative care services upon which to call, most in the world will need to provide the initial approaches to symptom control at the end-of-life. IS - 1 JF - BMC palliative care SN - 1472-684X TI - Ensuring competency in end-of-life care: controlling symptoms. VL - 1 KW - controlling KW - end-of-life KW - skills KW - symptoms KW - terminal AU - Ferris, Frank AU - Von Gunten, Charles AU - Emanuel, Linda PY - 2002/07/30/ UR - http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12149128 ER -