Purpose: This study examined the effect of marital communication on cancer coping, health promoting behavior, and subjective happiness in elderly patients.Methods: The participants were 88 older patients with living a spouse for at least one year. Data collected through questionnaire covering general characteristics, communications, analyzed using descriptive statistics, Pearson’s correlation, ...

OBJECTIVES To determine the impact of introducing copayments on medical care use and expenditures for low-income, adult Medicaid beneficiaries. DATA SOURCES/STUDY SETTING The Oregon Health Plan (OHP) implemented copayments and other benefit changes for some adult beneficiaries in February 2003. STUDY DESIGN Copayment effects were measured as the "difference-in-difference" in average monthly...

PURPOSE The study was undertaken to assess levels of aggression, and to determine factors affecting aggression among South Korean middle school students. METHODS A descriptive study was conducted using self-report questionnaires. The participants were 340 girls and boys from two middle schools and 302 questionnaires were used for the final data analysis. Aggression, academic stress, depressio...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES This study describes perioperative patient safety outcomes comparing laparoscopic appendectomy with open appendectomy in the elderly population (defined as age≥65 years) during the diffusion of laparoscopic appendectomy into widespread clinical practice. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional analysis of patients undergoing open or laparoscopic appendectomy in the US...

The aim of this study is to determine what factors constitute a quality prosthesis and ascertain which factors affect prosthesis satisfaction. Sixty-four women who received full funding for their prosthesis and 38 women who received their hospital's usual funding were recruited. Women rated the information provided about breast prostheses very highly, with 85% reporting that it was "very good" ...

Background There is a limited understanding of information technology’s (IT) role as an enabler patient agility and the department’s ability to respond patients’ needs wishes adequately. Objective This study aims contribute insights validity hypothesized relationship among IT resources, practices capabilities, hospital departments’ knowledge processes, adequately sense (ie, agility). Methods co...

OBJECTIVES Graft loss owing to chronic allograft dysfunction is a major concern in renal transplant recipients. We assessed the affect of immune and nonimmune risk factors on death-censored graft loss in renal transplant recipients with chronic allograft dysfunction. MATERIALS AND METHODS We performed a retrospective, single-center study on 214 renal transplant recipients with chronic allogra...

BACKGROUND Hyperprolactinemia has been associated with changes in body composition and metabolic abnormalities. Normalization of prolactin (PRL) with dopamine agonists has been found to reverse these abnormalities. This study was designed to assess the anthropometric and metabolic alterations associated with prolactinoma and response of these abnormalities to cabergoline treatment. METHODS In...