BMJ Clinical
Evidence now to cover supportive and palliative care
BMJ Clinical Evidence has extended its
service to cover the systematic reviewing of the evidence base behind supportive
and palliative care.
The new service covers a broad range
of clinical problems including constipation in people prescribed opioids,
delirium in the dying patient and nausea and vomiting in people with cancer
and other chronic illnesses.
Commenting on the new clinical guides
from BMJ Clinical Evidence which seek to reflect the best current consensus
among specialists in supportive and palliative care, Sam Ahmedzai, Professor
of Palliative Medicine at the University of Sheffield, said:
“We were struck by the paucity of the
evidence for palliative care interventions. Some of the better researched
clinical areas are not in palliative care but in supportive care of cancer
patients, for example, anti-emetics for chemotherapy-induced nausea and
vomiting.
“We trust that in future updates these
gaps in the evidence base will be filled in – if not from research in
cancer care then from other branches of medicine which are taking on the
supportive care mantle”.
This new service from BMJ Clinical Evidence
comes exactly 40 years after the opening of St Christopher’s Hospice in
London and 20 years after the establishment of the medical speciality of
palliative medicine in the UK.
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