Advancing Palliative Care, Hospice, and Symptom Research
Official Journal of the American Academy of Hospice and Palliative Medicine and the National Hospice and Palliative Care Organization



The Journal of Pain and Symptom Management is an internationally respected, peer-reviewed journal and serves an interdisciplinary audience of professionals by providing a forum for the publication of the latest clinical research and best practices related to the relief of illness burden among patients afflicted with serious or life-threatening illness.

The Journal has strongly supported both quantitative and qualitative research underpinning the evolving discipline of palliative care, including clinical trials of pain or symptom control therapies, epidemiology of phenomena related to life-threatening disease and end-of-life care, instrument development to enhance clinical assessment and facilitate investigation, and health services studies evaluating the outcomes of diverse therapeutic models. It also offers extensive coverage of clinical practice issues, publishing both systematic and narrative reviews, case series and case reports, and both special articles and columns that present important updates on topics as varied as the international diversity of palliative medicine, the economics of palliative care, and bioethics in end-of-life care.

Original Articles
Brief Reports
Brief Methodological Reports 
Brief Quality Improvement Reports
Clinical Notes 
Palliative Care Rounds
Letters
Reviews 
Special Articles and Special Series Articles
Ethical Issues in Palliative Care 
Humanities
Therapeutic Reviews
Educational Exchange
Media Reviews Books

Editor
Russell K. Portenoy, MD
MJHS Institute for Innovation in Palliative Care, 39 Broadway, Third Floor, New York, NY, USA
Senior Associate Editor
David J. Casarett, MD, MA
Durham, NC, USA
Associate Editors
Sydney Morss Dy, MD, MSc
Baltimore, MD, USA
Stefan J. Friedrichsdorf, MD
Minneapolis, MN, USA
David Hui, MD, Msc
Houston, TX, USA
Debra Parker Oliver, PhD, MSW
Columbia, MO, USA
Social Media Editor
Christian T. Sinclair, MD
Kansas City, KS, USA
Feature Editors
Humanities
Christina M. Puchalski, MD
Washington, DC, USA
Charles G. Sasser, MD
Conway, SC, USA
PC-FACS
Mellar P. Davis, MD
Editor-in-Chief, Danville, PA, USA
Robert M. Arnold, MD
Associate Editor-in-Chief, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Therapeutic Reviews
Andrew Wilcock, DM, FRCP
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Paul Howard, BMedSci, MRCP
Isle of Wight, United Kingdom
Founding Editor
George Heidrich, RN
Book Review Editors
Perry G. Fine, MD
Salt Lake City, UT, USA
Myra Glajchen, DSW
New York, NY, USA
Managing Editor
David Newcombe
Plymouth, MA, USA
Editorial Advisory Board
Tim A. Ahles, PhD
New York, NY, USA
Tatsuo Akechi, MD, PhD
Nagoya, Japan
Carla S. Alexander, MD
Baltimore, MD, USA
Rebecca Aslakson, MD
Stanford, CA, USA
F.Amos Bailley, MD
Denver, CO, USA
Justin Baker, MD
Memphis, TN, USA
Rachelle Bernacki, MD, MS
Boston, MA, USA
Gian Domenico Borasio, MD
Lausanne, Switzerland
Eduardo Bruera, MD
Houston, TX, USA
Augusto Caraceni, MD
Milan, Italy
J. Brian Cassel, PhD
Richmond, VA, USA
Victor T. Chang, MD
East Orange, NJ, USA
Stephen R. Connor, PhD
Fairfax Station, VA, USA
Zara Cooper, MD
Boston, MA, USA
Ellen L. Csikai, LCSW, MPH, PhD
Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
David C. Currow, BMed, MPH
Daw Park, South Australia, Australia
J. Randall Curtis, MD, MPH
Seattle, WA, USA
Luc Deliens, PhD
Brussels, Belgium
Areej El-Jawahri, MD
Boston, MA, USA
Betty R. Ferrell, PhD
Duarte, CA, USA
Frank D. Ferris, MD
Columbus, OH, USA
Chris Feudtner, MD, PhD, MPH
Philadelphia, PA, USA
Robert L. Fine, MD
Dallas, TX, USA
Melissa Garrido, PhD
Boston, MA, USA
Corita Grudzen, MD, MSHS
New York, New York, USA
Liz Gwyther, MB ChB, MSc Pall Med
Cape Town, South Africa
Laura C. Hanson, MD, MPH
Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Richard Harding, BSc, MSc, DipSW, PhD
London, United Kingdom
Peter Hudson, RN, PhD
Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Stein Kaasa, MD, PhD
Oslo, Norway
Arif H. Kamal, MD
Durham, NC, USA
Pål Klepstad, MD, PhD
Trondheim, Norway
Chad D. Kollas, MD
Orlando, FL, USA
Jean S. Kutner, MD, MSPH
Denver, CO, USA
Thomas W. LeBlanc, MD, MA
Durham, NC, USA
Solomon S. Liao, MD
Orange, CA, USA
Karl Lorenz, MD, MSHS
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sonja McIlfatrick PhD, RN
Northern Ireland, UK
Sebastiano Mercadante, MD
Palermo, Italy
Christine Miaskowski, RN, PhD
San Francisco, CA, USA
Masanori Mori, MD
Hamamatsu, Japan
Tatsuya Morita, MD
Shizuoka, Japan
Alvin H. Moss, MD
Morgantown, WV, USA
Ryan R. Nash, MD, MA
Columbus, OH, USA
Lauren Nicholas, PhD
Baltimore, MD, USA
Judith A. Paice, PhD
Chicago, IL, USA
Jennifer Philip, PhD, MMed, Grad Dip Pall Med, MBBS
Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia
Holly G. Prigerson, PhD
New York, NY, USA
Lukas G. Radbruch, MD
Aachen, Germany
Cielito C. Reyes-Gibby, DrPh
Houston TX, USA
Peter A. Selwyn, MD, MPH
Bronx, NY, USA
Deborah Witt Sherman, PhD
Coral Gables, FL, USA
Pesach Shvartzman, MD
Beer Sheva, Israel
Maria J. Silveira, MD, MA, MPH
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Paul A. Sloan, MD
Lexington, KY, USA
Natasha. Smallwood, MD
Melbourne, Australia
Karen Steinhauser, PhD
Durham, NC, USA
David G. Stevenson, PhD
Nashville, TN, USA
Jay Thomas, MD, PhD
Duarte, CA, USA
Martha L. Twaddle, MD
Lake Forest, IL, USA
Siew Tzuh Tang, PhD, RN
Tao-Yuan, Taiwan
Elizabeth K. Vig, MD, MPH
Seattle, WA, USA
Deborah P. Waldrop, LMSW, PhD
Buffalo, NY, USA
Andrew Wilcock, DM
Nottingham, United Kingdom
Joanne Wolfe, MD, MPH
Boston, MA, USA