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Cancer cachexia decreases specific force and accelerates fatigue in limb muscle. |
Roberts BM, Frye GS, Ahn B, Ferreira LF, Judge AR. |
Cancer Cachexia and Muscle Force Background: Studies have found heterogeneity in skeletal muscle's response to cancer cachexia1,2; specific force decreases in some skeletal muscles, such as the diaph... |
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Failure to engage hospitalized elderly patients and their families in advance care planning. |
Heyland DK, Barwich D, Pichora D, et al.; and ACCEPT (Advance Care Planning Evaluation in Elderly Patients) Study Team, Canadian Researchers at the End of Life Network(CARENET). |
Advance Care Planning and Elderly Hospitalized Patients Background: Advance care planning (ACP) is associated with better quality of life and less resource-intensive care at the end of life (EOL) and... |
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Lack of correlation between opioid dose adjustment and pain score change in a group of chronic pain patients. |
Chen L, Vo T, Seefeld L, et al. |
Opioid Dose Adjustment and Pain Score Change Background: The effectiveness of opioid therapy for chronic pain management may be compromised by opioid tolerance, opioid-induced hyperalgesia, a history... |
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Assessing patient-centered communication in cancer care: stakeholder perspectives [published online ahead of print May 14, 2013]. |
Mazor KM, Gaglio G, Nekhlyudov L, et al. |
Incorporating the Patient's Experience into Cancer Care Background: Federal policy now encourages healthcare organizations to monitor and strengthen patient-clinician relationships and interactions.1... |
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Exploration of oncologists' attitudes toward and perceived value of patient-reported outcomes. |
Meldahl ML, Acaster S, Hayes RP. |
Incorporating the Patient's Experience into Cancer Care Background: Federal policy now encourages healthcare organizations to monitor and strengthen patient-clinician relationships and interactions.1... |
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Snake: the development and validation of a questionnaire on sleep disturbances in children with severe psychomotor impairment. |
Blankenburg M, Tietze AL, Hechler T, et al. |
New Assessment Instrument for Severely Impaired Children with Sleep Disturbances Background: The majority of children with severe psychomotor impairments (eg, those associated with neuromuscular dis... |
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Pain medicine versus pain management: ethical dilemmas created by contemporary medicine and business. |
Loeser JD, Cahana A. |
Chronic Pain Intervention vs Chronic Pain Management Background: Conflict between the biomedical versus biopsychosocial models of illness, and between goals of medicine versus business, highlight et... |
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