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	Comorbidity, age, race and stage at diagnosis in colorectal cancer: a retrospective, parallel analysis of two health systems
S Yousuf Zafar, Amy P Abernethy, David H Abbott, Steven C Grambow, Jennifer E Marcello, James E Herndon II, Krista L Rowe, Jane T Kolimaga, Leah L Zullig, Meenal B Patwardhan and Dawn T Provenzale
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	View the YouTube interview with Dr. Amy Abernethy, discussing the results from the trial investigating Palliative Oxygen vs. Medical Air, presented at the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine (AAHPM) meeting in March 2009. click here to watch the interview
	View the interview with Dr. Hope Uronis, DCCRP Investigator  click here to view the PDF
See the impact of Pathfinders - meet the founders, program participants and care providers. Click here to see the video
	Breast Cancer Wellness Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 4, Winter 2008/2009 In this issue Amy Abernethy, MD and Jane Wheeler, MSPH discuss the Power of Team to benefit women in active treatment and throughout the journey of survivorship.   click here to view the PDF
	Breast Cancer Wellness Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 3, Fall 2008 In this issue Amy Abernethy, MD and Jane Wheeler, MSPH use a Q&A approach to answering Common Questions About Food and Breast Cancer.   click here to view the PDF
	Breast Cancer Wellness Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 2, Summer 2008 In this issue Amy Abernethy, MD discusses Whole Body Healing and Duke Cancer Care.  click here to view the PDF

Complete Publication List

Decision making and quality of life in the treatment of cancer: a review
S. Y. Zafar, S.C. Alexander, K. P. Weinfurt, K. A. Schulman and A. P. Abernethy
Supportive Care in Cancer 2009 17(2)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18802727

Researching breathlessness in palliative care: consensus statement of the National Cancer Research Institute Palliative Care Breathlessness Subgroup
S. Dorman, C. Jolley, A. Abernethy, D. Currow, M. Johnson, M. Farquhar, G. Griffiths, T. Peel, S. Moosavi, A. Byrne, A. Wilcock, L. Alloway, C. Bausewein, I. Higginson and S. Booth
Palliative Medicine 2009
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=19251835

A framework for generalizability in palliative care
D. C. Currow, J. L. Wheeler, P. A. Glare, S. Kaasa and A. P. Abernethy
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2009 37(3)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18809276

Does palliative home oxygen improve dyspnoea? A consecutive cohort study
D. Currow, M. Agar, J. Smith and A. Abernethy
Palliative Medicine 2009
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=19304806

Changes in anticholinergic load from regular prescribed medications in palliative care as death approaches
M. Agar, D. Currow, J. Plummer, R. Seidel, R. Carnahan and A. P. Abernethy
Palliative Medicine 2009 23(3)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=19318461

Systematic review: reliability of compendia methods for off-label oncology indications
A. P. Abernethy, G. Raman, E. M. Balk, J. M. Hammond, L. A. Orlando, J. L. Wheeler, J. Lau and D. C. McCrory
Annals of Internal Medicine 2009 150(5)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=19221366

Defining distinct caregiver subpopulations by intensity of end-of-life care provided
A. Abernethy, C. Burns, J. Wheeler and D. Currow
Palliative Medicine 2009 23(1)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18996981

Defining best supportive care
S. Y. Zafar, D. Currow and A. P. Abernethy
Journal of Clinical Oncology 2008 26(31)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18838696

Comorbidity, age, race and stage at diagnosis in colorectal cancer: a retrospective, parallel analysis of two health systems
S. Y. Zafar, A. P. Abernethy, D. H. Abbott, S. C. Grambow, J. E. Marcello, J. E. Herndon, 2nd, K. L. Rowe, J. T. Kolimaga, L. L. Zullig, M. B. Patwardhan and D. T. Provenzale
BMC Cancer 2008 8
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=19032772

Oxygen for relief of dyspnoea in mildly- or non-hypoxaemic patients with cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
H. E. Uronis, D. C. Currow, D. C. McCrory, G. P. Samsa and A. P. Abernethy
British Journal of Cancer 2008 98(2)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18182991

Oxygen for relief of dyspnea: what is the evidence?
H. E. Uronis and A. P. Abernethy
Curr Opin Support Palliat Care 2008 2(2)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18685402

Association between the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and patient wait times and travel distance for chemotherapy
A. M. Shea, L. H. Curtis, B. G. Hammill, L. D. DiMartino, A. P. Abernethy and K. A. Schulman
JAMA 2008 300(2)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18612116

Patient-oncologist communication in advanced cancer: predictors of patient perception of prognosis
T. M. Robinson, S. C. Alexander, M. Hays, A. S. Jeffreys, M. K. Olsen, K. L. Rodriguez, K. I. Pollak, A. P. Abernethy, R. Arnold and J. A. Tulsky
Supportive Care in Cancer 2008 16(9)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18196288

Don't ask, don't tell? Revealing placebo responses to research participants and patients
F. Keefe, A. P. Abernethy, J. Wheeler and G. Affleck
Pain 2008 135(3)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18282661

Creating a research culture in a palliative care service environment: a qualitative study of the evolution of staff attitudes to research during a large longitudinal controlled trial (ISRCTN81117481)
C. Grbich, A. P. Abernethy, T. Shelby-James, B. Fazekas and D. C. Currow
Journal of Palliative Care 2008 24(2)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18681246

Paper versus electronic formats for surveys: psychosocial instruments may yield different results, with important implications for patient assessment
A. Dupont, A. Coan, J. Wheeler, J. Herndon, H. Uronis and A. P. Abernethy
Psycho-Oncology 2008 17
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=ISI:000257874200382 <Go to ISI>://000257874200382

Comfort in the last 2 weeks of life: relationship to accessing palliative care services
D. C. Currow, A. M. Ward, J. L. Plummer, E. Bruera and A. P. Abernethy
Supportive Care in Cancer 2008 16(11)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18335259

Caregivers for people with end-stage lung disease: characteristics and unmet needs in the whole population
D. C. Currow, A. Ward, K. Clark, C. M. Burns and A. P. Abernethy
International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 2008 3(4)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=19281090

Do terminally ill people who live alone miss out on home oxygen treatment? An hypothesis generating study
D. C. Currow, T. Christou, J. Smith, S. Carmody, G. Lewin, S. Aoun and A. P. Abernethy
Journal of Palliative Medicine 2008 11(7)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18788964

Palliative care services meet different needs for different Caregivers
D. C. Currow, C. M. Burns and A. P. Abernethy
Psycho-Oncology 2008 17
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=ISI:000257874200232 <Go to ISI>://000257874200232

Financial burden of caring until the end of life
D. C. Currow, C. M. Burns and A. P. Abernethy
Internal Medicine Journal 2008 38(9)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=19143895

Bereavement help-seeking following an 'expected' death: a cross-sectional randomised face-to-face population survey
D. C. Currow, K. Allen, J. Plummer, S. Aoun, M. Hegarty and A. P. Abernethy
BMC Palliat Care 2008 7
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=19077297

Multi-site research allows adequately powered palliative care trials; web-based data management makes it achievable today
D. C. Currow, M. Agar, J. Tieman and A. P. Abernethy
Palliative Medicine 2008 22(1)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18216083

Populations who die without specialist palliative care: does lower uptake equate with unmet need?
D. C. Currow, M. Agar, C. Sanderson and A. P. Abernethy
Palliative Medicine 2008 22(1)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18216076

A pilot phase II randomized, cross-over, double-blinded, controlled efficacy study of octreotide versus hyoscine hydrobromide for control of noisy breathing at the end-of-life
K. Clark, D. C. Currow, M. Agar, B. S. Fazekas and A. P. Abernethy
Journal of Pain and Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy 2008 22(2)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=19042837

Racial differences in pain during 1 year among women with metastatic breast cancer: a hazards analysis of interval-censored data
L. D. Castel, B. R. Saville, V. Depuy, P. A. Godley, K. E. Hartmann and A. P. Abernethy
Cancer 2008 112(1)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18040997

Cancer survivorship
M. K. Campbell, D. Mayer, A. Abernethy and S. Carroll
North Carolina Medical Journal 2008 69(4)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18828328

Fatigue is the most important symptom for advanced cancer patients who have had chemotherapy
Z. Butt, S. K. Rosenbloom, A. P. Abernethy, J. L. Beaumont, D. Paul, D. Hampton, P. B. Jacobsen, K. L. Syrjala, J. H. Von Roenn and D. Cella
Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network 2008 6(5)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18492460

Are there many young people actively involved in family caregiving at the end of life?
C. M. Burns, A. P. Abernethy and D. C. Currow
Psycho-Oncology 2008 17
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=ISI:000257874200231 <Go to ISI>://000257874200231

Preference for place of care and place of death in palliative care: are these different questions?
M. Agar, D. C. Currow, T. M. Shelby-James, J. Plummer, C. Sanderson and A. P. Abernethy
Palliative Medicine 2008 22(7)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18755830

A health economic model of breakthrough pain
A. P. Abernethy, J. L. Wheeler and B. V. Fortner American
Journal of Managed Care 2008 14(5 Suppl 1)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18611101

Total dyspnoea
A. P. Abernethy and J. L. Wheeler
Curr Opin Support Palliat Care 2008 2(2)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18685406

Improving health care efficiency and quality using tablet personal computers to collect research-quality, patient-reported data
A. P. Abernethy, J. E. Herndon, 2nd, J. L. Wheeler, M. Patwardhan, H. Shaw, H. K. Lyerly and K. Weinfurt
Health Services Research 2008 43(6)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18761678

Specialized palliative care services are associated with improved short- and long-term caregiver outcomes
A. P. Abernethy, D. C. Currow, B. S. Fazekas, M. A. Luszcz, J. L. Wheeler and M. Kuchibhatla
Supportive Care in Cancer 2008 16(6)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17960433

Culture and financing influence palliative care services, study populations, and generalizability of research findings
A. P. Abernethy and D. C. Currow
Journal of Palliative Medicine 2008 11(2)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18333724

Quality management of potential chemotherapy-induced neutropenic complications: evaluation of practice in an academic medical center
A. P. Abernethy, S. Y. Barbour, H. Uronis, S. Y. Zafar, A. Coan, K. Rowe, M. R. Pupa, J. L. Wheeler and J. E. Herndon Ii
Supportive Care in Cancer 2008
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=19096882

Pain and sleep: establishing bi-directional association in a population-based sample
A. P. Abernethy
Pain 2008 137(1)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18410992

Frameworks for prescribing in comorbid illness
J. P. Stevenson, D. C. Currow and A. P. Abernethy
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2007 34(2)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17544614

Promoting patient centred palliative care through case conferencing
T. M. Shelby-James, D. C. Currow, P. A. Phillips, H. Williams and A. P. Abernethy
Australian Family Physician 2007 36(11)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18043787

Handheld computers for data entry: high tech has its problems too
T. M. Shelby-James, A. P. Abernethy, A. McAlindon and D. C. Currow
Trials 2007 8
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17309807

Oncologist communication about emotion during visits with patients with advanced cancer
K. I. Pollak, R. M. Arnold, A. S. Jeffreys, S. C. Alexander, M. K. Olsen, A. P. Abernethy, C. Sugg Skinner, K. L. Rodriguez and J. A. Tulsky
Journal of Clinical Oncology 2007 25(36)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18089870

Cancer-related fatigue. Clinical Practice Guidelines in Oncology
V. Mock, A. Atkinson, A. M. Barsevick, A. M. Berger, B. Cimprich, M. A. Eisenberger, P. Hinds, P. Kaldor, S. A. Otis-Green and B. F. Piper
Journal of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network 2007 5(10)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18053429

Small cell lung cancer presenting as a paraneoplastic syndrome characterized by recurrent episodic hypotension and bradycardia: case report
M. G. Martin, A. K. Ardati, S. M. Dunlay, A. P. Abernethy and M. A. Blazing
Chest 2007 131(1)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17218589
T
he Medicare Modernization Act and reimbursement for outpatient chemotherapy: do patients perceive changes in access to care?
J. Y. Friedman, L. H. Curtis, B. G. Hammill, J. K. Dhillon, C. H. Weaver, S. Biswas, A. P. Abernethy and K. A. Schulman
Cancer 2007 110(10)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17924373

Psychological interventions for arthritis pain management in adults: a meta-analysis
K. E. Dixon, F. J. Keefe, C. D. Scipio, L. M. Perri and A. P. Abernethy
Health Psychology 2007 26(3)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17500610

Prescribing in palliative care as death approaches
D. C. Currow, J. P. Stevenson, A. P. Abernethy, J. Plummer and T. M. Shelby-James
Journal of the American Geriatrics Society 2007 55(4)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17397439

Can we predict which patients with refractory dyspnea will respond to opioids?
D. C. Currow, J. Plummer, P. Frith and A. P. Abernethy
Journal of Palliative Medicine 2007 10(5)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17985956

Oxygen use--patients define symptomatic benefit discerningly
D. C. Currow, B. Fazekas and A. P. Abernethy
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2007 34(2)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17555920

Pharmacological management of dyspnoea
D. C. Currow and A. P. Abernethy
Curr Opin Support Palliat Care 2007 1(2)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18685349

Hazards for pain severity and pain interference with daily living, with exploration of brief pain inventory cutpoints, among women with metastatic breast cancer
L. D. Castel, A. P. Abernethy, Y. Li, V. Depuy, B. R. Saville and K. E. Hartmann
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2007 34(4)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17583467

Palliative care clinical research networks, a requirement for evidence-based palliative care: time for coordinated action
A. P. Abernethy, L. C. Hanson, D. S. Main and J. S. Kutner
Journal of Palliative Medicine 2007 10(4)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17803401

Palliative management of refractory dyspnea in COPD
H. E. Uronis, D. C. Currow and A. P. Abernethy
International Journal of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 2006 1(3)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=18046866

Development of a subject search filter to find information relevant to palliative care in the general medical literature
R. Sladek, J. Tieman, B. S. Fazekas, A. P. Abernethy and D. C. Currow
Journal of the Medical Library Association 2006 94(4)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17082830

Evidence in palliative care research: how should it be gathered?
T. Shelby-James, A. P. Abernethy and D. C. Currow
Medical Journal of Australia 2006 184(4)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=16489909

Studying communication in oncologist-patient encounters: the SCOPE Trial
C. M. Koropchak, K. I. Pollak, R. M. Arnold, S. C. Alexander, C. S. Skinner, M. K. Olsen, A. S. Jeffreys, K. L. Rodriguez, A. P. Abernethy and J. A. Tulsky
Palliative Medicine 2006 20(8)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17148536

The impact of conducting a regional palliative care clinical study
D. C. Currow, A. P. Abernethy, T. M. Shelby-James and P. A. Phillips
Palliative Medicine 2006 20(8)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17148528

Reader questions benefit of nebulized opioids
D. C. Currow and A. P. Abernethy
Oncology Nursing Forum 2006 33(3)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=16708437

The broader implications of diabetes management at the end of life
D. C. Currow and A. P. Abernethy
Palliative Medicine 2006 20(6)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17060259

Frameworks for approaching prescribing at the end of life
D. C. Currow and A. P. Abernethy
Archives of Internal Medicine 2006 166(21)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=17130397

A framework for managing comorbid conditions in palliative care
D. Currow and A. P. Abernethy
Journal of Palliative Medicine 2006 9(3)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=16752963

A pragmatic 2 x 2 x 2 factorial cluster randomized controlled trial of educational outreach visiting and case conferencing in palliative care-methodology of the Palliative Care Trial [ISRCTN 81117481]
A. P. Abernethy, D. C. Currow, R. Hunt, H. Williams, G. Roder-Allen, D. Rowett, T. Shelby-James, A. Esterman, F. May and P. A. Phillips
Contemporary Clinical Trials 2006 27(1)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=16290094

PC-FACS: a real-time evidence resource for busy palliative care clinicians
A. P. Abernethy and R. M. Arnold
Journal of Palliative Medicine 2006 9(1)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=16430341

CareSearch: finding and evaluating Australia's missing palliative care literature
J. J. Tieman, A. P. Abernethy, B. S. Fazekas and D. C. Currow
BMC Palliat Care 2005 4
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=16083513

A comparison of methodologies from two longitudinal community-based randomized controlled trials of similar interventions in palliative care: what worked and what did not?
G. K. Mitchell, A. P. Abernethy, T. Investigators of the Queensland Case Conferences and T. Palliative Care
Journal of Palliative Medicine 2005 8(6)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=16351536

Psychological approaches to understanding and treating disease-related pain
F. J. Keefe, A. P. Abernethy and C. C. L
Annual Review of Psychology 2005 56
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=15709948

Quality palliative care: practitioners' needs for dynamic lifelong learning
D. C. Currow and A. P. Abernethy
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management 2005 29(4)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=15857734

The Australia-modified Karnofsky Performance Status (AKPS) scale: a revised scale for contemporary palliative care clinical practice [ISRCTN81117481]
A. P. Abernethy, T. Shelby-James, B. S. Fazekas, D. Woods and D. C. Currow
BMC Palliat Care 2005 4
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=16283937

Prescribing palliative oxygen: a clinician survey of expected benefit and patterns of use
A. P. Abernethy, D. C. Currow, P. Frith and B. Fazekas
Palliative Medicine 2005 19(2)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=15810762

Managing comorbidities in patients at the end of life
J. Stevenson, A. P. Abernethy, C. Miller and D. C. Currow
BMJ (Clinical Research Ed.) 2004 329(7471)
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=pubmed&cmd=Retrieve&dopt=abstract&list_uids=15485977

Specialist palliative care needs of whole populations: a feasibility study using a novel approach
D. C. Currow, A. P. Abernethy and B. S. Fazekas
Palliative Medicine 2004 18(3)
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