NHS Evidence - supportive and palliative care [Новость добавлена - 31.07.2010]

July 2010 Bulletin

· See all new items added in June

Guidelines

NICE:

• Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: management of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in adults in primary and secondary care (partial update). NICE Clinical Guideline 101. Published 21 June 2010

Dept of Health:

• Manual for Cancer Services 2008: head and neck measures. Published 24 June 2010

British Pain Society:

• Cancer pain management. Published January 2010

• Opioids for persistent pain: good practice. Published March 2004, updated January 2010

Dept of Health:

• Help is at hand: a resource for people bereaved by suicide and other sudden, traumatic death. Published 28 April 2010, updates previous guidance of September 2008

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

• Exercise interventions for upper-limb dysfunction due to breast cancer treatment
• Whole brain radiation therapy (WBRT) alone versus WBRT and radiosurgery for the treatment of brain metastases

UK Database of Uncertainties about the Effects of Treatments (DUETs)

• Chinese herbal medicines for induction of remission in advanced or late gastric cancer
• Anticholinergics for urinary symptoms in multiple sclerosis
• A systematic review to investigate the effectiveness and acceptability of interventions for moist desquamation in radiotherapy patients
• Effectiveness of topical administration of opioids in palliative care

· All new items added in June

Some of the items added to the 'Evidence in the News' RSS feed last month

• MS sufferers welcome first licensed cannabis-based drug
• Acupuncture pain molecule pinpointed