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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Surgical oncology"”.
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FACTORS AFFECTING RECRUITMENT TO SURGICAL ONCOLOGY CLINICAL TRIALS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO IMPROVE ACCRUAL
Surgical trials involve patients undergoing a surgical intervention. Poor recruitment is the most important issue that can lead to study failure. Chapter 1 provides the conceptual framework of recruitment issues that can arise when conducting a surgical trial. Different methodological challenges …
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USE OF NEAR-INFRARED FLUORESCENCE WITH INDOCYANINE GREEN IN SMALL ANIMAL SURGICAL ONCOLOGY AND IN CADAVERIC ANATOMICAL STUDY
… surgery, its clinical application in veterinary surgical oncology is still developing. In recent years, however, interest in this technique has grown rapidly, highlighting its potential to improve surgical precision and intraoperative decision-making in small animal surgical oncology. This PhD …
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Cancer Diagnosis During Pregnancy: Evaluating The Challenges Faced By Oncologists
… a multidisciplinary approach, involving medical oncology, surgical oncology, radiation oncology, radiology, and a maternal fetal medicine specialist. In spite of this consensus, there is not a standardized approach for treating cancer in women diagnosed during pregnancy. Due to the relative …
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Clearing the Pathway to Chemotherapy Certification for Inpatient Nurses
… leader (CNL) project was conducted, in a medical-surgical oncology unit in a community-based hospital, to evaluate and improve upon the decreasing number of chemotherapy certified nurses. A Likert survey of the nurses provided a self-assessment of competency in handling chemotherapy patients, and …
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Optimal allocation of surgical services
… programming. Our model captures each surgical case's impact on hospital resources (e.g. OR time, surgeon time, etc.) from when a patient enters the preoperative holding area to when they are released from the post anesthesia care unit. Using knowledge of resource requirements for each …
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An Interdisciplinary Approach to Reducing Falls: Utilizing Team Huddles and Visual Aids to Increase Nursing Staff and Patient Knowledge on T.E.A.M. Fall Risk Interventions
… the ongoing increase in PFs on a medical-surgical oncology unit in an inpatient hospital setting. The increase in PFs created urgency to provide solutions to these preventable circumstances. This Clinical Nurse Leader (CNL) led the project and conducted a comprehensive microsystem …
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Evaluating the Feasibility of a Nurse-driven Follow-up Telephone Triage Intervention to Improve Post-treatment Outcomes in Head and Neck Cancer Patients Undergoing Chemotherapy and Radiation in the Ambulatory Setting
… and monitoring the status of patients in surgical, medical, and oncologic settings. The use of proactive triage calls for symptom assessment are well-defined in the surgical oncology populations, but less so around patients undergoing anti-neoplastic therapies. Objective: The overall …
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Σύστημα προεγχειρητικού σχεδιασμού χειρουργικής ογκολογίας ήπατος προσανατολισμένο για χρήση από χειρουργούς
Το ήπαρ είναι ένα όργανο στο οποίο μπορούν να αναπτυχθούν καλοήθεις ή κακοήθεις όγκοι, πρωτοπαθείς αλλά και πολύ συχνά μεταστατικοί. Η σύγχρονη χειρουργική ήπατος χρησιμοποιεί τις δυνατότητες που παρέχονται από την τεχνολογία των υπολογιστών ώστε να αντλήσει όσο το δυνατό περισσότερες πληροφορίες …