Name:
Mt. Sinai School of Health/Franklin Health, Inc.: Treatment of Symptoms
Distress: Normal Sleep and Insomnia
Description:
One sheet protocol guideline for treatment recommendations for Cancer Anorexia/Cachexia
for use by physicians and nurse case managers in the field.
Category:
Clinical Care Tools - Symptom Management
Source:
Mount Sinai School of Medicine/ Franklin Health, Inc.
Mount Sinai Medical Center
Box 1070
One Gustav L. Levy Place
New York, New York 10029-6574
www.mountsinai.org
Contact:
Suzy Goldhirsch
suzy.goldhirsch@mssm.edu
How the grantee used this instrument:
Nurses used this instrument
to engage in comprehensive clinical assessments and to make specific intervention
recommendations when contacting the treating physician by telephone.
Keywords:
symptom assessment
To use this tool:
You may print and copy this tool for your own use from the website. Please credit
source.
References:
AMA EPEC Manual, EPEC Project (Education for Physicians on End-of-Life Care).
This document modified from Edmonton Palliative Care website.
Robin L. Fainsinger, MD Director, Royal Alexandra Hospital Palliative Care Program
- Issue #2
To view this tool:
Left click on the download link to view the PDF document in your Web browser.
Right-click on the download link to save the document to your computer.
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Acrobat Reader.)
Posted September 2004
# MS07, type:symptom_management
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