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Changes in willingness to self-manage pain among children and adolescents and their parents enrolled in an intensive interdisciplinary pediatric pain treatment program. |
Logan DE, Conroy C, Sieberg CB, Simons LE. |
Willingness to Self-Manage Pain Among Youths and Parents Background: Interdisciplinary rehabilitation programs for children and adolescents with chronic pain emphasize pain self-management; they have... |
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Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to assess the efficacy and toxicity of subcutaneous ketamine in the management of cancer pain. |
Hardy J, Quinn S, Fazekas B, et al. |
Efficacy and Toxicity of Subcutaneous Ketamine for Cancer Pain Background: Although ketamine is widely used to help manage cancer pain, cardiac, neurologic, and bladder toxicities are reported.1,2 Ho... |
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Food or medicine: ethnic variations in perceptions of advanced cancer patients and their caregivers regarding artificial hydration during the last weeks of life. |
Torres-Vigil I, Cohen MZ, de la Rosa A, et al. |
Ethnic Differences in Perceptions of Artificial Hydration in the Last Weeks of Life Background: To maximize comfort and avoid medicalized death, traditional hospice philosophy recommends against arti... |
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Identifying family members who may struggle in the role of surrogate decision maker. |
Majesko A, Hong SY, Weissfeld L, White DB. |
Surrogate Decision-Making Among Family Members of ICU Patients Background: Surrogate decision-making for intensive care unit (ICU) patients can cause family members significant distress.1-3 Are there... |
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Apathy: prevalence, associated factors, and prognostic value among frail, older inpatients. |
Hölttä EH, Laakkonen ML, Laurila JV, Strandberg TE, Tilvis RS, Pitkälä KH. |
Apathy Among Frail Older Inpatients Background: Apathy is associated with global disease severity, cognitive impairment, functional deficits, and caregiver burden.1-4 In elderly inpatients,... |
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Pathological steps of cancer-related lymphedema: histological changes in the collecting lymphatic vessels after lymphadenectomy. |
Mihara M, Hara H, Hayashi Y, et al. |
Predicting Lymphedema Risk Through Histology and Nomograms Background: Despite known risk factors, it remains difficult to predict an individual patient's lymphedema (LE) risk. Can histology and nomo... |
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Nomograms for predicting the risk of arm lymphedema after axillary dissection in breast cancer. |
Bevilacqua JL, Kattan MW, Changhong Y,et al. |
Predicting Lymphedema Risk Through Histology and Nomograms Background: Despite known risk factors, it remains difficult to predict an individual patient's lymphedema (LE) risk. Can histology and nomo... |
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