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Document 0645
DOCN M94A0645
TI What is the best model for AIDS palliative care?
DT 9412
AU Malcolm JA; Nineways Specialist Clinic, Broadmeadow, NSW.
SO Annu Conf Australas Soc HIV Med. 1993 Oct 28-30;5:60 (abstract no.
SPa1). Unique Identifier : AIDSLINE ASHM5/94349010
AB In one of competing models AIDS palliation begins when active treatment
ceases and responsibility for care passes from a treatment to a
palliative care service. This model (based on cancer care) limits
service overlap and is economical, but creates practical and ethical
difficulty in defining when to cease active treatment, promotes
discontinuity of care and may allow discrimination. It permits treatment
teams to give symptom palliation lower priority, and palliative care
services to avoid specific management of complications unique to AIDS. A
second model recognises that all AIDS treatment is presently palliative
and directed to minimise symptoms and maximise quality and length of
life. It requires antiretroviral drugs, treatment of infective and
neoplastic complications, and provision of high levels of support
extending over years. Terminal care may be brief. This model requires
case management strategies to coordinate services. Approaches to
palliative care developed for cancer require modification for AIDS and
the challenge is to develop and apply the most appropriate concepts.
DE Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome/*PHYSIOPATHOLOGY Administration,
Oral Analgesics/*ADMINISTRATION & DOSAGE/ADVERSE EFFECTS Analgesics,
Addictive/*ADMINISTRATION & DOSAGE/ADVERSE EFFECTS Drug Therapy,
Combination Human Injections, Subcutaneous Morphine/ADMINISTRATION &
DOSAGE Pain/*DRUG THERAPY/ETIOLOGY Palliative Treatment/*METHODS
Terminal Care/METHODS MEETING ABSTRACT
SOURCE: National Library of Medicine. NOTICE: This material may be
protected by Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.Code).