BACKGROUND The aims of the study were to examine the effects of a multidimensional rehabilitation program on cancer-related fatigue, to examine concurrent predictors of fatigue, and to investigate whether change in fatigue over time was associated with change in predictors. METHODS SAMPLE 72 cancer survivors with different diagnoses. SETTING rehabilitation center. INTERVENTION 15-week ...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To investigate the relationships among physiologic variables, fatigue, and quality of life (QOL) in patients with multiple myeloma. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive, exploratory. SETTING Outpatient ambulatory care clinics at a tertiary oncology center. SAMPLE 56 patients with multiple myeloma were accrued consecutively via nonprobability sampling strategy. METHODS ...

AIM To study the effect of Huangqi Jianzhong Tang in reducing fatigue improvement in athletes. METHODS Twelve athletes were randomly separated into a control group, whose members were administered with placebos, and the experimental group, whose members were administered with Huangqi Jianzhong Tang. During the eight weeks of the experiment, test subjects continued exercise as usual. Prelimina...

In probabilistic design of materials for fracture-critical components in modern military turbine engines, a typical maximum design target risk (DTR) is 5 10 8 component failures/engine flight hour. This metric underscores the essential role of safety in a design process that simultaneously strives to achieve performance, efficiency, reliability, and affordability throughout the life cycle of th...

Automated patient monitoring systems suffer from several design problems. Among them, alarm fatigue is one of the most critical issues, as evidenced by the Sentinel Event Alert that The Joint Commission – the U.S. hospital-accrediting body – recently issued. In this study, we explore fast-and-frugal heuristics that may be used to prioritize patient alarms, while continuing to monitor patient ph...

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of visual fatigue caused by smartphone use on balance function. [Subjects and Methods] The participants consisted of 22 healthy male and female adults. Their postural stability, limit of stability, and limit of stability running time were evaluated using a computerized posturography apparatus before and after inducing visual fatig...

On my (AK) fi rst day on the patient fl oors as a medical student, I couldn’t help but notice the buzzing, beeping, cacophony of alarms that ostensibly indicated impending danger for just about every patient on the unit. I looked around, waiting for someone (a nurse, a doctor, anyone) to react. Yet thus far in my brief career, I’ve come to learn that most of the alarms I hear do not indicate em...