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Jan Gaertner
Medicine & Public Health
Nursing Research
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Open AccessDifferential palliative care issues in patients with primary and secondary brain tumours
Cancer may affect the central nervous system either by primary or secondary brain tumours (PBT/SBT). Specific needs of these patients and special requirements of services caring for them have not been adequate...
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Standardizing integration of palliative care into comprehensive cancer therapy—a disease specific approach
Our comprehensive cancer centre adopted the WHO recommendation literally in the cancer care guidelines to implement the early integration (EI) of palliative care (PC). Evaluation of the first 2 years of this a...
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Recommending early integration of palliative care — does it work?
In 2006, our comprehensive cancer center decided to implement early integration (EI) of palliative care (PC) by (a) literally adopting the WHO definition of PC into cancer care guidelines and (b) providing a PC c...
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Practicability, safety, and efficacy of a “German model” for opioid conversion to oral levo-methadone
An algorithm to convert from any other opioid to oral levo-methadone was developed in Germany, the German model of levo-methadone conversion (GMLC). According to this GMLC, the pre-existing opioid is stopped, ...
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Open AccessTranscutaneous electrical nerve stimulation for advanced cancer pain inpatients in specialist palliative care—a blinded, randomized, sham-controlled pilot cross-over trial
Transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) is a treatment option for cancer pain, but the evidence is inconclusive. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy and safety of TENS.
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Open AccessSevere symptoms and very low quality-of-life among outpatients newly diagnosed with advanced cancer: data from a multicenter cohort study
The aim of this study was to identify symptoms of severe intensity or very low scores for quality of life (QoL) domains in newly diagnosed outpatients with advanced cancer.
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Open AccessPharmacological treatment of cancer pain and opioid induced nausea and vomiting: online survey and comparison with current guidelines
We assumed that in Palliative Care, even in common clinical situations, the choice of drugs differs substantially between physicians. Therefore, we assessed the practice of pharmaceutical treatment choices of ...
