PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of supportive care on healthcare and support needs for women with suspected breast cancer during the diagnostic period. DESIGN A quasiexperimental design with two nonrandomly assigned groups. SETTING Two general surgery outpatient departments at a large teaching hospital in Taiwan. SAMPLE Experimental and control groups included 62 and 60 women...

This exploratory study identified the supportive care needs of family members of men with advanced hormone-sensitive (HS) and hormone-refractory (HR) prostate cancer. In focus groups and individual interviews, we asked eight family members of men with HS disease and 11 family members of men with HR disease to identify their supportive care needs and recommend strategies for improving care to me...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To better understand the priority supportive care needs of men with advanced prostate cancer. RESEARCH APPROACH Qualitative, descriptive study. SETTING Outpatient cancer center and urology clinics in central western Ontario, Canada. PARTICIPANTS 12 men with hormone-sensitive prostate cancer and 17 men with hormone-refractory prostate cancer. METHODOLOGIC APPROACH Pati...

Alternative care facilities (ACFs) have been widely proposed in state, local, and national pandemic preparedness plans as a way to address the expected shortage of available medical facilities during an influenza pandemic. These plans describe many types of ACFs, but their function and roles are unclear and need to be carefully considered because of the limited resources available and the reduc...

amitraz is a triazapentadiene, an α2 adrenergic agonist and a member of the amidine chemical family. a limited number of human intoxication cases have been published in the literature. lack of a clear and specific protocol for the therapy of amitraz intoxication may make its successfully managed case reports useful and valuable for other clinical practitioners in poisoning departments. the case...

V posledních letech byl díky zavedení nových léčebných postupů dosažen signifikantní pokrok v intenzivní léčbě mnoha hematoonkologických onemocnění. Se zavedením přichází nové nároky na podpůrnou terapii. tomto článku poskytujeme stručný přehled nejčastějších nároků péči v modelové situaci autologních či alogenních transplantací krvetvorby a vysvětluj...

the research compares 5-12 year old children of addicted fathers with those of non-addicted fathers. this experiment was carried out on one hundred families of the addict, in comparison to another one hundred non-addicted families. these children have not been subjects for social scientists and health experts because of the following facts: 1) they live with their parents, 2) they are not crimi...