{"product_id":"9780199330331","title":"Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care","description":"Patients with advanced cancer may develop a number of clinical complications related to tumor progression or a variety of aggressive treatments.  The majority of these patients are elderly, often with multiple co-morbidities that require appropriate assessment and management.  In the palliative stage of their disease, patients undergo a progressive transition from active acute care to community-based hospice care.  This transition requires modification in the diagnostic tests, monitoring procedures and pharmacological treatments to adjust them to the palliative and short-term nature of the care.  Internal Medicine Issues in Palliative Cancer Care looks at internal medicine through a prognosis-based framework and provides a practical approach to maximizing comfort and quality of life while minimizing aggressive investigations and therapies for patients with life-limiting disease.  Forty-six common internal medicine conditions are organized into nine clinical categories: pulmonary, cardiovascular, nephrologic and metabolic, gastrointestinal, hematologic, infectious, endocrine, rheumatologic, and neuro-psychiatric. This evidence-based resource is ideal for educating clinicians delivering palliative care to cancer patients in acute care facilities about complex internal medicine problems, decision-making regarding diagnostics and therapeutics which require a good understanding of state-of-the-art internal medicine and palliative care principles.","brand":"Oxford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47067375501552,"sku":"9780199330331","price":49.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780199330331_p0.jpg?v=1763669023","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780199330331","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}