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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Patient pain"”.
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Oncology Nurses' inferences of patients' pain
… variables that may affect inferences of patient pain, i.e., nurse’s age, number of years in nursing, number of years in oncology nursing, specialty area within oncology and patient age, sex, and type of illness/injury. The questionnaire incorporated a demographic data sheet and The …
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The effects of a pain management training program on nurse pain assessment accuracy and patient satisfaction
… relevant to the assessment and management of patient pain were examined. The accuracy of nurse assessments of patient pain and patient ratings of satisfaction with the pain management care received from their nurses were of particular interest. Additionally, the study investigated differences …
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The use of children's free drawings in assessing the presence of paediatric pain
… to assess the presence of post-operative pain in patients where language barriers previously prevented the use of existing pain assessment methods. This research involved 50 children ages 6 - 13 years, mostly from impoverished families, treated at the Red Cross Children's Hospital. The …
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Development of a Colonoscopy Simulator for the Evaluation of Colonoscopy Devices
… procedure requires improvement since it causes patient pain and can even result in injury. Novel colonoscopy devices have to be evaluated to gain information about their performance. At the preclinical stage of the device development the evaluation is typically performed in laboratory …
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Onsite Integrative Clinics: Acupuncture, Positive Patient Outcomes, and Frequency of Provider Office Visits
… resource utilization, and associated costs for patients who receive acupuncture in integrative health settings. The purpose of this study was to address this gap through the following aims: To examine: (1) changes in patient pain levels pre/post acupuncture treatments; (2) relationships between …
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Learning and model-based approaches to improved patient monitoring, assessment and treatment in capnography and procedural sedation
… and treatment are facilitated by appropriate patient monitoring. In this work, we bring quantitative and model-based methods to two settings in which current monitoring modalities are largely qualitative, and evaluate them on extensive clinical data collected by our collaborators. The first …
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Improving the patient’s emotional experience of emergency department visits
… multi-trillion-dollar industry, the service that patients receive is falling short of expectations. With the passing of the Affordable Care Act, customer satisfaction scores are becoming a larger part of the hospital rankings nationwide and impacting their reimbursement from insurance companies. …
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PHARMACOGENOMICS OF OPIOID RESPONSE IN EUROPEAN ADVANCED CANCER PATIENTS
… ladder, are the standard of care for treating pain in advanced cancer patients. Unfortunately, a significant minority of them do not benefit from analgesic therapy, or experience several side effects, such as nausea and vomiting. Genetics might play a role in predisposing patients to a good or …
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The Effects of Synovial Fluid and Inflammatory Cells on Orthopaedic Implant Alloys
… of failure in TKA and their correlation with patient quality of life.</p> <p><strong>Methodology.</strong>The study employed a methodology to examine the effects of SF on orthopedic implant alloys. SF samples were collected from patients before their TKA surgery (IRB approval number: …