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The Palliative Care Research Cooperative
Jean S. Kutner, MD, MSPH

Palliative care represents a systematic approach to ameliorate suffering and improve quality of life in patients with advanced, life-threatening disease and their caregivers.
The Pain Clinician as an Expert Witness
George Mendelson, MB, BS, MD, FRANZCP, FFPMANZCA

The term malingering refers to the willful feigning of sickness or disability for the purposes of obtaining compensation for a real or an imaginary injury or ailment, or to evade military service.
Drug Testing and Reimbursement for Patients with Chronic Pain
Jennifer Bolen

The regulatory and reimbursement environment surrounding drug testing is becoming increasingly stringent.
Animal Models in Pain Research
Jeffrey S. Mogil, PhD

Elucidation of the underpinnings of pain regulation in laboratory animals provides a powerful avenue for research into comparable mechanisms in humans.
Research Trends in Palliative Care: Ethical Issues for Researchers and IRBs to Consider: 4th Annual Perry Fine Lecture at West Virginia University
Perry Fine, MD

Palliative care research is related to understanding and improving the quality of life of patients near the end of life.
Pain, Ethics, and Palliative Sedation
Russell K. Portenoy, MD
The Politics of Pain: 3rd Annual Perry Fine Lecture at West Virginia University
Scott M. Fishman, MD

The World Health Organization has stated that undertreated pain is the number one health problem in America. Sharp rises in unintentional prescription drug overdose rates, however, have caused regulators to move to restrict access to...
Ethical Issues in Opioid Prescribing for Chronic Pain
Jane C. Ballantyne, MD

The evolution of medicine has shifted medical decision making from a physician-driven process to a guidance–cooperation model of care, in which patients choose among potential treatment options based on recommendations from healthcare...
Direct Access to Physical Therapy
Michael Cormican, MSPT

Direct access, as defined by the American Physical Therapy Association, is “the legal right to seek and receive the examination, evaluation, and intervention of the physical therapist without the requirement of a physician...
Emerging Ethical Issues in Palliative Care: Grand Rounds from the Dept. of Pain Medicine and Palliative Care, Beth Israel Medical Center
Tia Powell, MD

During catastrophic public health emergencies or disasters, existing surge capacity plans may not allow healthcare providers to continue to follow normal treatment procedures and adhere to usual standards of care.

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