Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy Literature Summaries and Analyses

Abstract

Timely and important studies are reviewed and commentaries provided by leading palliative care clinicians. Symptoms, interventions, and treatment-related adverse events addressed in this issue are computerized symptom management; anticholinergic agents in lung disease; neuropathic pain and morphine effectiveness; morphine dosing; inflammatory cytokines and pain; oral ghrelin-mimetics and sarcopenia; and opioid-induced bowel dysfunction.

KEYWORDS:

• Anticholinergic
• bowel dysfunction
• computerized
• gherilin
• opioid
• palliative
• sarcopenia