1 40 1 Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Citation List Month Backlog URL Address <a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/0269216309106461" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">http://doi.org/10.1177/0269216309106461</a> Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Prioritising drugs for single patient (n-of-1) trials in palliative care Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Palliative Medicine Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 2009 Subject The topic of the resource RDF Project Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Nikles J; Mitchell G; Walters J; Hardy J; Good P; Rowett D; Shelby-James T; Currow D Description An account of the resource Many of the drugs prescribed commonly to palliative care patients have potentially significant side-effects and are of unproven benefit. The acquisition of evidence to support the prescribing of these drugs has been very slow. Single patient trials (SPTs) (also known as n-of-1 trials) offer a potential means of obtaining the evidence necessary to support or refute the use of several of the drugs and interventions whose use is currently based on physician experience or anecdote alone. A list of SPTs considered "most urgent", for commonly employed treatments and for the most common and most troublesome symptoms in palliative care is presented. These are drugs for which the gap between evidence and practice is greatest, where the evidence of efficacy is most lacking, where significant side effects potentially lead to the greatest morbidity, or where cost is a major patient burden. Although not all the drugs used in palliative care are suitable, SPTs provide a potential alternative method of gathering evidence in palliative care. 2009 Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context <a href="http://doi.org/10.1177/0269216309106461" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">10.1177/0269216309106461</a> Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Article information provided for research and reference use only. PedPalASCNET does not hold any rights over the resource listed here. All rights are retained by the journal listed under publisher and/or the creator(s). Type The nature or genre of the resource Journal Article 2009 Backlog Currow D Good P Hardy J Journal Article Mitchell G Nikles J Palliative Medicine RDF Project Rowett D Shelby-James T Walters J