​​Palliative Wiki
​​Welcome to the Palliative Medicine Wiki, an recently formed, work-in-progress, online wikibook of palliative medicine for doctors, medical students and other health professionals.
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​​This wikibook seeks to be an accurate source of up-to-date information about the field of palliative medicine with a focus on the symptoms, investigations, treatment and prognosis of terminal illnesses and their complications as well as on symptom relief issues and pharmacology that is relevant to palliative medicine.
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​​For a very concise summary of treatment guidelines for palliative care patients, see A Pocketbook of Palliative Medicine (Australian Edition)
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​​Quick Links:
  • ​​​+Opioids​ (including equivalence tables)
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​​Introduction to Palliative Medicine

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​​Palliative Illness (see chapter 2 below for details of different palliative illnesses).
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​​​+Prognostication​ 
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​​Communication (see chapter 5 below for details of management including communication)
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​​Quality of Life and Symptom Control (see chapters 3 to 5 for details on symptoms, signs, investigation and management).
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​​End of Life Care
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​​Conditions and Complications

​​​+Cancer​
  • ​​Thoracic Malignancies
  • ​​Lung Cancer - Small Cell Lung Cancer and Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
  • ​​Breast Cancer
  • ​​Gynaecological Malignancies
  • ​​Ovarian Cancer
  • ​​Primary Peritoneal Cancer
  • ​​Endometrial Cancer
  • ​​Cervical Cancer
  • ​​Urological Malignancies
  • ​​Gastrointestinal Malignancies
  • ​​Stomach Cancer
  • ​​Oesophageal Cancer
  • ​​Hepatobiliary Malignancies