This collection provides an easy way to find reviews on topics relevant to palliative care. It is dynamic and will change over time as new reviews are released. Our method for selecting reviews for inclusion is described in the Procedures page. This collection should not replace your own personalised search for systematic reviews on a particular topic. Users need to assess the quality of the individual reviews for their own purposes. To submit details of a review which meets the CareSearch criteria for inclusion email caresearch@flinders.edu.au

Care Issues	Specific Populations	Service / System Issues
Anorexia cachexia	Carers	Advance Care Planning
Anxiety	Children	Advance Directives
Ascites	Dementia	Communication
Bereavement	Families	Complementary Therapies
Bleeding and haematological	Indigenous	Decision making
Bowel/Bowel obstruction	Intellectually disabled	Death denying
Cognition	Mental illness	Desire for hastened death
Constipation	Multicultural	Economics
Cough	Older People	Education and training
Delirium	Paediatrics	Effectiveness
Depression	Patients	Ethics
Dignity	Rural and remote	Euthanasia
Dysphagia		Geographic
Dyspnoea	Health Professionals	Models of Service Delivery
End-of-life	Chaplains	Needs assessment
Exercise	General Practitioners	Organ donation
Existential Distress	Home-care Workers	Outcome measures
Fatigue	Nurses	Patient carer training
Fluids and hydration	Occupational Therapists	Policy
Grief and Loss	Social Workers	Population issues
Haematological	Volunteers	Preferred place of death
Hope		Professional and service issues
Nausea and vomiting	Disease Groups	Quality of life
Nutrition	Cancer	Quality process
Oral (Mouth care)	COPD	Referral
Pain	Diabetes	Research
Palliative chemotherapy	General	Respite
Palliative radiotherapy	Heart failure	Site of care
Palliative sedation	HIV	Social support
Palliative surgery	Liver Failure	Teams
Prognosis	Motor Neurone Disease	Tools and measures
Psychological issues	Multiple Sclerosis
Quality of life	Neurological
Respiratory Secretions	Non-malignant
Sexuality	Renal
Skin (wound care)	Stroke
Sleeping problems	Vegetative state
Spinal cord compression
Spirituality
Symptom & clinical dilemmas
Terminal restlessness
Urinary problems
Weight loss

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This page was created on 22 May 2008.
Last updated 9 March 2010