2006 was a busy year for the Division of Quality Outcomes. You can find a list of our 2006 publications and presentations here.

The links below will take you to abstracts of some of our published works.

• Weschules DJ, McMath JA, Gallagher R, Alt CJ, Knowlton CH. Methadone and the Hospice Patient: Prescribing Trends in the Home-care Setting. Pain Med. 2003; 4(3):269-76. [PubMed]
  
  
• Hall S, Gallagher RM, Graceley E, Knowlton CH, Weschules DJ. The Terminal Cancer Patient: Effects of Age, Gender, and Primary Tumor Site on Opioid Dose. Pain Medicine. June 2003;4(2):125-134. [PubMed]
  
  
• Bain KT, Weschules DJ, Knowlton CH, Gallagher R. Toward Evidence-based Prescribing at the End of Life: A Comparative Review of Temazepam and Zolpidem for Treatment of Insomnia. Am J Hosp Palliat Care. 2003; 20(5):382-8. [PubMed]
  
  
• Reifsnyder J, Hoplamazian LM, Maxwell TL. Preventing & Treating Pressure Ulcers in Hospice Patients. Caring. 2004; 23(11):30-7. [PubMed – no abstract available]
  
  
• Weschules DJ. Development of the Guidelines for Palliative Care Pharmacotherapy. J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother. 2005; 19(4):25-38. [PubMed]
  
  
• Reifsnyder J, Magee H. Development of Pressure Ulcers in Patients Receiving Home Hospice Care. Wounds 2005; 17(4):74-9. [Wounds Magazine]
  
  
• Weschules DJ. Tolerability of the Compound ABHR in Hospice Patients.
  J Palliat Med. 2005; 8(6):1135-43. [PubMed]
  
  
• Weschules DJ, Maxwell TL, Reifsnyder J, Knowlton CH. Are Newer, More Expensive Pharmacotherapy Options Associated with Superior Symptom Control Compared to Less Costly Agents Used in a Collaborative Practice Setting? Am J Hosp Palliat Med. 2006; 23(2):135-49. [PubMed]
  
  
• Tolen L, McMath JA, Alt C, Weschules DJ, Knowlton CH, McPherson ML. Initial Selection of Antiemetics in End-of-Life Care: A Retrospective Analysis. Int J Pharmaceutical Compounding. 2006; 10(2):147-53. [Int J Pharm Compo]
  
  
• Bain, KT. Management of Chronic Insomnia in Elderly Persons. Am J Geriatr Pharmacother. 2006; 4(2):168-92. [PubMed]
  
  
• Weschules DJ, Bain KT, Reifsnyder J, McMath JA, Kupperman DE, Gallagher RM, Hauck WW, Knowlton CH. Toward Evidence-based Prescribing at End of Life: A Comparative Analysis of Sustained-release Morphine, Oxycodone, and Transdermal Fentanyl and Clinical Outcome Markers in the Hospice Patient.
  Pain Medicine. 2006;7(4):320-329. [PubMed]
  
  
• Bain KT. A Patient-activated Iontophoretic Transdermal System for Acute Pain Management with Fentanyl Hydrochloride: Overview and Applications. J Opioid Manage 2006; 2(6):314-24. [PubMed]
  
  
• Twaddle ML, Maxwell TL, Cassel JB, Liao S, Coyne PJ, Usher BM, Amin A, Cuny J. Palliative Care Benchmarks from Academic Medical Centers. J Palliat Med 2007; 10(1):86-98. [PubMed]
  
  
• Ferris FD, Al Khateib AA, Fromantin I, Hoplamazian L, Hurd T, Krasner DL, Maida V, Price P, Rich-Vanderbij L. Palliative Wound Care: Managing Chronic Wounds Across Life's Continuum: A Consensus Statement from the International Palliative Wound Care Initiative. J Palliat Med 2007; 10(1):37-39. [PubMed; no abstract available]

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