The Edmonton Regional Palliative Care Program was established in July 1995 to measure
the access of patients with terminal cancer to palliative care services, decrease the number of …

To evaluate the hypothesis that subcutaneous sites initiated with the Teflon cannula would
have longer durations and be more comfortable for the patient than the butterfly needle, we …

Increasingly, patients with cancer are dying at home and in continuing care facilities. The
purpose of bus rounds is to provide continuing education to physicians and nurse palliative …

We report the cases of 5 patients who developed severe local toxicity during the subcutaneous
administration of morphine sulphate and hydromorphone hydrochloride. All patients …

To update all these nurses' acute care skills, the clinical educator of one of the areas most
affected proposed a nursing skills enhancement course for registered nurses. A pilot nursing …

… Selmser P …

This paper reports the results of a national survey of palliative care nurses conducted following
a meeting of nurses at the Fifth Canadian Palliative Care Association Conference in 1993…

The Edmonton Labeled Visual Information System (ELVIS) is a novel method of documenting
clinical information because it is a pictorial method of representing cancer burden and …

We describe a simple method for the assessment of symptoms twice a day in patients admitted
to a palliative care unit. Eight visual analog scales (VAS) 0–100 mm are completed either …

It may be helpful, prior to reading the FINAL Report of the multi-faceted HOPE Project, for
the reader to have an understanding of some of the previous work from the literature in the …