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This Handbook could not have been completed without the wholehearted involvement of a team of healthcare professionals who freely shared of their time and expertise in advising, editing and

contributing various chapters or sections.

That such writing was completed on top of existing heavy clinical work loads is a testimony to these advisors, their capacity for hard work and commitment to sharing knowledge and expertise.

The costs of such extracurricular activities as contributing to handbooks like this is ususally also paid for by the families and partners of those whom we have trapped in their studies—thank

you.

We particularly thank C atherine Barnes and Georgia Pinteau at Oxford University Press for their patience through the long birthing process of the handbook, and their ready supply of

encouragement.

We are indebted to Ian Back both for permission to use some of the material contained in his excellent Palliative Medicine Handbook and for his input into the project despite several other

major commitments.

The South West London and The Surrey, West Sussex and Hampshire C ancer Networks gave permission to use material contained in their Adult and Paediatric palliative care guidelines.

Jan Brooman at the Princess Alice Hospice Library was an invaluable help in the painstaking task of checking through the references.

The management and colleagues at the Princess Alice Hospice and the Northern Ireland Palliative Medicine Training Scheme have been very supportive of this project.

Handbooks, by their very nature, are distillations of accumulated and shared clinical knowledge. There is no claim to originality in these pages. We must accredit the hundreds of palliative care

professionals who have observed, researched, recorded and written in journals and textbooks, to create the palliative care knowledge base which has been our primary text—a text which,

almost unbelievably, did not exist in medical literature only 40 years ago.

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Book Name	oxford handbook of palliative care
Author	Max Watson,Caroline lucas, Ian back
Language	English
Format	PDF
Size	5.24MB
Page	475