Patient’s satisfaction is an indicator of quality care and it encompasses the different aspects nursing leading to cancer patient’s like information given by nurses. Aim: To assess level with among hospitalized patients. Study design: Cross-sectional descriptive study. Methodology: A sample 158 patients in two hospitals was selected from Jinnah hospital Lahore INMOL using method non-probability...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To examine empirical research regarding the role of malglycemia (hyperglycemia, hypoglycemia, or glycemic variability) on clinical outcomes among hospitalized patients with cancer. DATA SOURCES Research articles were obtained from the Ovid, PubMed, and CINAHL® databases. Key words used in the search included hyperglycemia or malglycemia and neoplasm combined with venous thr...

OBJECTIVE We aimed to determine the frequency, type, and etiology of infections and the risk factors for infections and mortality in hospitalized cancer patients. MATERIALS AND METHODS We prospectively enrolled adult cancer patients hospitalized in the internal medicine wards of a tertiary care academic center between January and August 2004. Patients were followed during their hospitalizatio...

Many recent scores based on the inflammatory response, such as Neutrophil Lymphocyte Ratio (NLR), Platelet (PLR), Monocyte (LMR) have been demonstrated to a prognostic value in cancer patients. The ratio between neutrophils and lymphocytes is very useful tool, most studies admitting its role marker cancer. We made retrospective study 391 patients hospitalized operated emergency for complicated ...

PROBLEM IDENTIFICATION Glucocorticoids are prescribed for hospitalized patients with cancer for a variety of reasons, including cerebral edema, treatment and prevention of nausea, and as part of cancer treatment regimens. Glucocorticoids are known to cause hyperglycemia. The purpose of this study was to integrate the published research on the management and the effects of steroid-induced hyperg...