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Showing 1 to 20 of 47 for “"serious illness"”.
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Negotiating serious illness : understanding young women's experiences through Photovoice
Although serious illness is often associated with aging in contemporary society, increasing numbers of young adults are being diagnosed with a variety of serious illnesses. In order to learn more about what it is like to be seriously ill during young adulthood, I completed a qualitative study with …
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Patient and Caregiver Perception of Shared Decision Making in the Serious Illness Conversation
… Institute of Medicine finds that patients facing serious illness have higher end-of-life quality when care plans incorporate their values, goals and preferences. A higher quality of life can be achieved by care that includes effective clinician-patient communication early in the disease …
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Associations Among End-Of-Life Discussions, Healthcare Utilization And Costs, And Race/ethnicity In Persons With Serious Illness
… among Whites and African Americans with serious illness who either did or did not have inpatient palliative care consultation to discuss GOC (“PCC”) (n = 35,154; PCC: n= 1,197; non-PCC: 33,957) (Chapter 3); and (3) Examining risk factor profiles associated with timing of PCC before death …
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Evaluation of the acceptability and validity of the Serious Illness Conversation Guide in oncology patients in South Africa
… (HCP) guides a patient with a life-threatening illness to better understand their disease and to make value-concordant decisions for their future medical care including their end-of-life (EOL) care. The Serious Illness Conversation Guide (SICG, Ariadne Labs 2017) was developed and validated as a …
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Natural language processing for precision clinical diagnostics and treatment
… and treatment within the palliative care and serious illness field. I explore a variety of natural language processing methods, including deep learning, rule-based, and classic machine learning, and applied to the identication of documentation reflecting advanced care planning measures, …
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A Retrospective Study of the Last Year of Life for People with Intellectual Disabilities in Community Residences
… more attention paid to issues surrounding serious illness and end-of-life care for adults with intellectual disabilities (IDs). However, care for this population remains fraught with complex challenges and wanting for best practices and standards. Further, research seeking to identify the …
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Passion and Intellect in the Music of Elizabeth Maconchy DBE (1907–1994)
… she was a figure of true tenacity in the face of serious illness and difficult circumstances. This study serves as an introduction to the composer’s life and music bringing together significant unpublished and previously unavailable material for the first time.
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Development and characterization of novel toxoplasma gondii inhibitors
… the infection. In humans, infection can cause serious illness or death. Treatments currently available are limited by toxicity and teratogenicity. This necessitates the development of novel drug compounds. Tryptanthrin and its analogue, 8-bromotryptanthrin, have shown promise in the treatment …
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The Clinical Decision Support Liaison: A Novel Means for Support in Acute Care
… and planning for the future in the context of serious illness. Providers of medical care are often unable to help resolve these situations due to their competing obligations.
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Young men's sexuality and sexually transimitted infections in Zambia
… (37.4%) workers reported having suffered from a serious illness or injury since coming to Nakambala. The majority (85.4%) of those who reported having suffered serious illness (n=89) attributed the cause to the nature of the jobs they were doing. A very small proportion (6.7%) attributed cause to …
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Young men's sexuality and sexually transimitted infections in Zambia
… (37.4%) workers reported having suffered from a serious illness or injury since coming to Nakambala. The majority (85.4%) of those who reported having suffered serious illness (n=89) attributed the cause to the nature of the jobs they were doing. A very small proportion (6.7%) attributed cause to …
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CLINICIAN DISTRESS TRAJECTORIES WHEN CARING FOR SERIOUSLY ILL HOSPITALIZED PATIENTS: A MIXED-METHODS STUDY
… every year in the US, many of whom are seriously ill and experience substantial distress. Clinicians caring for these complex patients also experience distress while simultaneously juggling competing clinical demands. Clinician distress is underrecognized and rarely identified in …
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Knockout of the trans-acting riboswitches in Listeria monocytogenes to disrupt downstream virulence factors
… pathogen is often food-borne and can lead to serious illness or death of those that are immunocompromised. Current medical research into the practical use of this pathogen has revealed that the intercellular mechanisms can be exploited to produce a cancer vaccine. Currently L. monocytogenes is …
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On the environmental factors that alleviate relocation stress syndrome in residents of long-term care facilities
… conditions to worsen, which can result in serious illness, possibly death. "Moving to a nursing home entails a complete lifestyle change, the trauma of which is compounded when the patient is ill or in pain and the move is unanticipated" (Morse, 2000, p. 24AAA). I have researched reasons …
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Peer Influence: A Method to Help Manage Stress
… by stress when confronted by non-work events (serious illness, arguments with spouse, marriage). Both samples experience stress when confronted by three events that can cause stress for the individual concerned (death of a family member, serious illness suffered by a family member, being …
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Duration of oral anticoagulation in first-episode idiopathic deep vein thrombosis: A Markov decision analysis.
… thrombosis (DVT) of the lower extremity is a serious illness with an estimated incidence of 1 per 1000 persons per year. Objectives. To compare the lifetime risks and benefits of three months, six months, twelve months, two years, and lifelong anticoagulation for first episode idiopathic DVT. …
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Agreeing on a way forward: management of patient refusal of treatment decisions in Victorian hospitals
… and medical practitioners when patients with serious illness refuse medical treatment. The study seeks to identify the main constraints confronting nurses and medical practitioners and to explain the key factors that moderate the processes of dealing with refusal decisions. Using a grounded …
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Analyzing Communication in Mother-Daughter Dyads Following the Mother's Cancer Diagnosis
… potential to shake a family to its core like a serious illness (Anderson & Geist Martin, 2003; Gotcher, 1993; Northouse, 2005; Sherman & Simonton, 2001). Communication is one of the most important elements in determining and influencing families' emotions, patients' quality of life, patient …
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The negative relationship between immunization rates and outbreaks: an argument for improving awareness and provider recommendations, advocating for, and developing intervention strategies to increase immunization rates across California.
… all Californians to promote health and prevent serious illness. In order to improve immunization rates, analysis of needs is a primary focus of CIC; immunization rates for both children and adults remain low, due to compounding factors such as rising personal belief exemptions, mistrust of …
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