作者: James Giordano , Michael E Schatman , Gerhard Höver
DOI: 10.36076/PPJ.2009/12/E265
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摘要: Advances in medicine have produced an elongated lifespan often burdened by chronic disorders. Throughout the and at end of life such disorders can give rise to intractable pain. Although clear distinctions about respective role(s) for pain therapeutics palliative remain debatable, both are involved care. Such care has reached a point crisis fueled tensions within between clinical, administrative, economic factors. We call strategy rapprochement reconcile these as means facilitate more effective ethically sound describe roles values principal stakeholders: palliative- pain-care physicians, patients, insurance providers, hospital administrators elucidate how dissonances groups may contribute inefficacy system sustain chronic, maldynic discuss affect use evidence resources explicate frameworks ameliorative model that acknowledges balances relative needs all stakeholders. While we tried depict why is necessary, possible, difficult task determine this process should be articulated what shape profession total might assume.