The following is a list of treatment guidelines and recommendations for clinicians working in pain and palliative care settings.
If you know of a treatment guideline not listed here, please send the information and URL here
Disclaimer: This list is presented as an information resource only. The Information should not be relied upon as complete or accurate, nor should it be relied on to suggest a course of treatment for a particular individual. Patients with health care related questions or concerns are advised to contact a physician or other qualified health care provider. The IAHPC makes no warranty as to the reliability, accuracy, timeliness, usefulness, adequacy, completeness or suitability of the information.
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Clinical Practice Guidelines
Management of Cancer Pain
Click Here
Agency for Health Care Policy and Research Clinical Practice Guidelines
Manejo del Dolor por Cancer (In Spanish)
Click Here
AIDS Palliative Care. UNAIDS Technical update. October 2000.
http://www.hospicecare.com/resources/pdf-docs/unaids-pallcare-aids.pdf
American Cancer Society Advanced Cancer and Palliative Care Guidelines
http://www.cancer.org
American Psychosocial Oncology (APOS) Society
Cancer 101 for Mental Health Professionals
http://www.apos-society.org/professionals/meetings-ed/webcasts/webcasts-ican3.aspx
Bowel Obstructions: How to Recognize and How to Manage
http://www.palliative.org/PC/ClinicalInfo/NursesNotes/BowelObstructions.html
Clinical Calculators
http://www.globalrph.com/calculators.htm
Clinical Guide on Supportive and Palliative Care for People with HIV/AIDS
http://hab.hrsa.gov/tools/palliative/
End of Life Care for Persons with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS)
http://www.promotingexcellence.org/als/als_report/
End of Life Care for Persons with Mental Illness
http://www.promotingexcellence.org/mentalillness/
Guidelines for the Use of Antiretroviral Agents in Pediatric HIV
Infection (2005)
http://www.synergyaids.com/documents/ARVGuidelinesPediatric2005.pdf
National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A., 2005
Hypermedia Assistant for Cancer Pain Management
http://www.painresearch.utah.edu/cancerpain/chtoc.html
IAHPC Palliative Care Manual
http://www.hospicecare.com/manual/IAHPCmanual.htm
Home Care Guide for Advanced Cancer
http://www.acponline.org/public/h_care/contents.htm
Lifting the veil of Huntington’s Disease
Recommendations to the Field from the Huntington’s Disease Peer Workgroup
Promoting Excellence in End of Life Care
www.promotingexcellence.org
Managing Ascites in Palliative Care
http://www.palliative.org/PC/ClinicalInfo/NursesNotes/ManagingAscitesInPC.html
Manejo del Dolor por Cáncer (pdf) (in Spanish)
http://www.mywhatever.com/cifwriter/content/48/download/introduction.pdf
Manual para la Familia: Como Cuidar un Enfermo en Casa (In Spanish)
http://www.femeba.org.ar/paliativo/pacientes.html
Narcotic Conversion Calculator
http://www.globalrph.com/narcotic_pda.htm
National Pain Foundation Cancer Pain and Palliative Care Treatment Options
Click Here
National Cancer Institute - Pain Control: A Guide for People with Cancer
and their Families
http://www.cancer.gov/cancerinformation/paincontrolguide
Nutrition Counselling, Care and Support for HIV-infected Women:
Guidelines on HIV-related Care, Treatment and Support for HIV-infected
Women and Their Children in Resource-constrained Settings
http://www.synergyaids.com/documents/15_nutriCounselHIVWomen.pdf
World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland, 2004
Opioid Safety in Patients With Renal or Hepatic Dysfunction
by Sarah J. Johnson, PharmD
http://www.pain-topics.org/pdf/Opioids-Renal-Hepatic-Dysfunction.pdf
Pain and Symptom Control in the Cancer and AIDS patient in Uganda and
other African countries.
Adapted with permission from a book by Dr. Derek Doyle and Dr. TF Benson
by Dr Anne Merriman.
http://www.hospicecare.com/resources/pdf-docs/painsym_uganda.pdf
Palliative Care for People Living with HIV/AIDS
Clinical Protocol for the WHO European Region, World Health
Organization. 2006
http://www.hospicecare.com/resources/pdf-docs/who-living-with-hivaids.pdf
Palliative Care in HIV Management
Global AIDS Learning & Evaluation Network (GALEN)
International Association of Physicians in AIDS Care (IAPAC)
http://www.hospicecare.com/resources/pdf-docs/galen-pallcare-eng.pdf
Pediatric Palliative Care
http://www.promotingexcellence.org/childrens/index.html
Protocolos de Tratamiento (In Spanish)
http://www.hospicecare.com/protocolos/
Purdue Pharma Educational Resource Center
http://www.partnersagainstpain.com/professionaleducationcenter/index.htm
Shaare Zedek Cancer Pain and Palliative Care Reference Database
http://www.chernydatabase.org
Spinal Cord Compression: A Palliative Care Emergency
http://www.palliative.org/PC/ClinicalInfo/NursesNotes/SpinalCordCompression.html
Supportive and Palliative Care for HIV/AIDS patients
http://hab.hrsa.gov/tools/palliative/
The Solid Facts of Palliative Care and Better Palliative Care for Older People.
WHO Centre for Urban Health with the support of the Floriani Foundation in collaboration with the European Association of Palliative Care, the International Palliative Care Initiative of the Open Society Institute, the Kings College London and the European Institute of Oncology. Available in English and Russian.
English (new window will open)
http://www.euro.who.int/document/E82933.pdf and http://www.euro.who.int/document/E82931.pdf
Russian (new window will open)
http://www.euro.who.int/document/E82933R.pdf and http://www.euro.who.int/document/E82931R.pdf
UNIPAC Book Series
Hospice/Palliative Care Training for Physicians:
A Self Study Program of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine Provides complete coverage of all areas of palliative care and 48 CME credits.
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WHO HIV/AIDS Treatment and Care Protocols for the European Region are now available in Russian. The protocols can be downloaded from http://www.euro.who.int/eprise/main/WHO/Progs/SHA/treatment/20060801_1
World Health Organization Palliative Care: Symptom Management and End of Life Care
Integrated Management of Adolescent and Adult Illness
Interim Guidelines for First Health Workers
http://ftp.who.int/htm/IMAI/Modules/IMAI_palliative.pdf
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