The challenge of palliative careRobert G Twycross
Sir Michael Sobell House, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK
Int J Clin Oncol 7:271-8. 2002
..Charisma continues to be necessary to prevent palliative care being strangled by an over-rigid bureaucracy, but incorporation into existing health delivery systems is necessary to prevent it being stillborn through lack of resources...
- Palliative care: an international necessity
Robert G Twycross
Nuffield Department of Clinical Medicine, Oxford University, United Kingdom
J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother 16:61-79. 2002
..This commentary describes the development of modern palliative care, some of the elements and underlying philosophical constructs of such care, and calls for expansion and improvement in end of life care throughout the world...
- Itch: scratching more than the surface
R Twycross
Sir Michael Sobell House, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, OX3 7LJ, UK
QJM 96:7-26. 2003
..If the remedies specified fail, paroxetine and mirtazapine should be considered. Ultraviolet B therapy, particularly narrow-band UVB, may be superior to drug treatment for itch in uraemia...
- Patient care: past, present, and future
Robert Twycross
Oxford University, United Kingdom
Omega (Westport) 56:7-19. 2007
..However, at the end of the day, if we are truly to honor Cicely Saunders, palliative care must remain a movement with momentum, combining creative charisma with inevitable bureaucratic routinization...
- Neuroleptics in terminal restlessness
Robert G Twycross
J Pain Palliat Care Pharmacother 19:55; author reply 57. 2005
