... improve the pharmaceutical careofpatientswithcancer Thus, a key issue exists – can the pharmaceutical careofpatientswithcancer be enhanced by leveraging on the role of pharmacoinformatics ... improvements in the pharmaceutical careofpatientswithcancer through the reduction of DRPs 14 Chapter 1.3.3 Cancer- related information on the World Wide Web for patientswithcancer Many internet websites ... concurrently with their cancer therapies, ranging from 45% of Japanese,144 61% of Taiwanese,145 and 76% and 67% of Singaporean adult and paediatric patients respectively.146,147 Patientswith cancer...
... lung cancer and 38-65% for patientswith stage 1B lung cancer Surgery gives the highest chance of cure for patientswith stage I and II lung cancer D 6.2.2 Patientswith stage I and II lung cancer ... MANAGEMENT OFPATIENTSWITH LUNG CANCER 1.4 STATEMENT OF INTENT This guideline is not intended to be construed or to serve as a standard ofcare Standards ofcare are determined on the basis of all ... as offering the best compromise between accuracy of staging and containment of morbidity 17 MANAGEMENT OFPATIENTSWITH LUNG CANCER 6.2.5 RESECTION IN PATIENTSWITH STAGE IIIA NSCLC A number of...
... factors First of all, the inclusion in our multivariable analysis (with a stepwise mode of variable selection) of a marker Table 3: Multivariate survival analysis of 70 patientswith gastric cancer ... peripheral patients gene TNM stage I to IV gastric cancer blood of 70 Survivin Survivin gene levels measured in the peripheral blood of 70 patientswith TNM stage I to IV gastric cancer The trend ... expression of a chosen sample by which the expression profile of each sample of interest is adjusted: this approach enables the investigator to compare the expression profile of the samples of interest...
... question of detecting therapy-related changes in the mass profiles registered for blood samples collected from breast cancerpatients SELDI-ToF analysis of the plasma proteome of breast cancerpatients ... responses ofpatients to therapy but not restoration of the "normal healthy" pattern of the serum profile Conclusions Here we established the high potential of MALDI-ToFbased analyses for detection of ... components formed [A
... total of 64 patient and caregiver dyads were recruited and interviewed Around two-thirds of the patients were male and two-thirds of the caregivers were female Median age ofpatients and caregivers ... quality of life ofpatientswith chronic disease: a review J Clin Epidemiol 1992, 45:743-760 Tang ST, McCorkle R: Use of family proxies in quality of life research for cancerpatients at the end of ... (median) score of 18.5 (17)[19,20] This is a surprising finding, as this was a sample of terminally patients, most of whom died within the next few weeks and months All of the patients and caregivers...
... developed with the intention of creating a care path with rapid pre-operative attention, increased continuity and an accelerated training programme without disturbing the flow ofpatientswith other ... to facilitate a healthy transition process In contrast to the careof younger patients, the careof elderly patients is more complex with more factors involved (such as health status, co-morbidities, ... development of outcomes-based care delivery Critical CareNursing Clinics of North America 1998, 1(10):1-11 Cheah J: Development and implementation of a clinical pathway programme in an acute care general...
... disease As a consequence, within few months these patients return with recurrent cancer[ 1] In most cases, patients present themselves with multiple sites of metastatic disease within the abdomen which ... presence of 37°C with 5% CO2 Page of 12 masses and/or a family history of ovarian cancer Description ofpatients who participated in the study is provided in Additional file (Table 1) Preparation of ... from ascites ofcancerpatients Cell lysates (25 μg) of (a) ovarian cancer cell lines (OVCA433, OVCA429, SKOV3 and 2008) and (b) tumor cells isolated from the ascites ofpatientswith advanced-stage...
... incurable The aim of treatment in the majority ofpatientswith advanced disease is palliation with a view to optimise quality of life (QoL) and survival time[4] Patients diagnosed with Stage IV ... impact of non-operative management of advanced CRC in an unselected, consecutive series ofpatients presenting with newly diagnosed disease It reviews and compares the outcomes ofpatientswith ... formation in patients presenting with malignant large bowel obstruction One of the concerns in managing patientswith surgically incurable CRC without resection of the primary tumour is the risk of the...
... Methods Patients Medical and RT records of all patientswith LS-SCLC between 1997 and 2006 were reviewed Patients were selected based on the initial diagnosis of LS-SCLC where definitive TRT with ... followed by initiation of TRT within week after the start of the last cycle of induction chemotherapy, and then 2-4 cycles of adjuvant chemotherapy delivered within a week at the end of TRT Chemotherapy ... lower limit of 60-70 Gy in conventional fraction recommended Page of by National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) [16] Therefore, we divided patients into two groups with a cut-off of BED 57...
... http://www.ro-journal.com/content/3/1/20 Background Patients and methods Prostate cancer is the leading form ofcancer diagnosed among Canadian men and accounts for approximately 27% of new cancer cases and 11.4% ofcancer deaths ... Most newly diagnosed patientswith prostate cancer present with localized disease [3] EBRT is a treatment option for patientswith early-stage or locally advanced prostate cancer [4] Recent data ... method of dose escalation in patientswith locally advanced prostate cancer who have received EBRT Health related quality of life (HRQoL) is a subjective measure of a patient's perception of well-being...
... years of age of whom the GPs consider themselves to be the physician taking careof the treatment of this condition in the patient We expect eight to ten patients per practice [18,19] Patients ... detect a difference of 0.3 points with a standard deviation of (a relatively small effect), with alpha = 0.05 and beta = 0.20, ICC = 0.05, a total of 51 practices with 10 patients each would ... Evidence of change will be assessed by studying the effects of the intervention on patientswith CHF registered with the participating GPs As in the pilot [10], GPs will include all CHF patients...
... related to health care organizations in primary and secondary care [31-33] Aim The aim of this study is to improve the quality ofcare for patientswith diabetes cared for in primary care by identifying ... the primary care team There are National Institute for Health and Clinical Effectiveness (NICE) guidelines defining standards of care, but studies of the quality ofcare for patientswith diabetes ... 25% ofcare provided is not needed or potentially harmful [7,8] A review of quality ofcare studies (including diabetes) from UK primary care concluded that 'in almost all studies the process of...
... related to health care organizations in primary and secondary care [31-33] Aim The aim of this study is to improve the quality ofcare for patientswith diabetes cared for in primary care by identifying ... the primary care team There are National Institute for Health and Clinical Effectiveness (NICE) guidelines defining standards of care, but studies of the quality ofcare for patientswith diabetes ... 25% ofcare provided is not needed or potentially harmful [7,8] A review of quality ofcare studies (including diabetes) from UK primary care concluded that 'in almost all studies the process of...
... conducted to assess the offset times of the pharmacodynamic effects of prolonged remifentanil infusions in ICU patientswith varying degrees of renal impairment, including patientswith severe renal ... those of remifentanil in patientswith moderate/severe renal impairment Offset of the pharmacodynamic effects of remifentanil The primary objective of the study was to confirm that accumulation of ... of mechanically ventilated patientswith varying degrees of renal impairment • Overall, the µ opioid effects of remifentanil were not prolonged in patientswith renal impairment The time to offset...
... (11%) (5%) Number (%) ofpatientswith a serious adverse event (5%) (5%) (5%) Number (%) ofpatientswith a drug-related serious adverse event (1%) 0 Number (%) ofpatientswith any adverse event ... effects of remifentanil compared with those of alfentanil [8] and fentanyl [9] are similar; remifentanil also has a safety profile similar to that of other opioids [8-10] The predictable offset of ... analysed by using an analysis of variance with baseline entered as a covariate The proportion ofpatientswith the most common adverse events (defined as 5% or more ofpatients experiencing the adverse...
... cardiac output in patientswith various types of shock in the ICU [1,14] In agreement with the findings reported by Jannuzzi and coworkers in the present issue of Critical Care [1], previous ... testing for the evaluation Page of (page number not for citation purposes) of critically ill patientswith shock in the intensive care unit: a prospective cohort study Crit Care 2006, 10:R37 Maisel ... spectrum of critically ill patients Further clinical trials should lead to the establishment of treatment protocols for the use of PAC in this patient population The additional measurement of NT-proBNP...
... all patients had abdominal sepsis In the latter group, three out of the 10 patients had an open abdomen after decompression for intra-abdominal hypertension; the remainder of the patientswith ... mechanically ventilated patientswith and without acute respiratory failure, measured EELV was markedly reduced in comparison with the predicted sitting FRC Only in patientswith secondary lung disorders ... derecruitment In this study, patientswith secondary lung disorders benefitted from higher PEEP, whereas patientswith primary or without lung disorders did not, and application of higher PEEP in this...
... in Norway The range ofpatients observed for each clinician was 2-119 with a median of 30 in Denmark and 20 in Norway Number of maintenance carepatients The range of MC patients per chiropractor ... the remaining patients were MC patients and 542 non-MC patients The range of clinicians per student was 1-4 and the range ofpatients per student was 15-119 The median number ofpatients observed ... proportion ofpatients on MC care in general chiropractic practice? Are there specific patterns of intervals between treatments for patients and, if so, how they differ between MC patients and non-MC patients? ...
... purpose of this study was waived Page of 11 (page number not for citation purposes) Patients All studies enrolled consenting adults with pneumonia Nursing home residents with health care- associated ... risk class I, five patients (not admitted to ICU) died within three days of ED presentation The risk class I patients accounted for 2510 of 4593 (54.6%) and 1099 of 1967 (55.9%) patients, respectively, ... prospective cohorts ofpatientswith CAP, we derived and validated the REA-ICU index to predict ICU referral within the first three days of hospital admission in patients without overt circulatory...
... Critical Care Vol 13 No Bikker et al Figure Pao2/Fio2 ratio in different types of lung conditions at three PEEP levels Patients in group N had normal lungs, those ... are presented as the difference between the lowest PEEP level (5 cmH2O) and 10 or 15 cmH2O PEEP Patients in group N had normal lungs, those in group P had a primary lung disorder, and those in ... secondary lung disorder EELV, end-expiratory lung volume; PEEP, positive end-expiratory pressure Page of (page number not for citation purposes) ...