OBJECTIVES:Patient-identified need is key to delivering holistic, supportive, person-centred care, but we lack tools enabling patients to express what they need to manage life with a long-term condition. The Support Needs...
INTRODUCTION: The Numerical Rating Scale (NRS) is frequently used to assess patient-reported breathlessness in both a research and clinical context. A subgroup of patients report average breathlessness as worse than their worst...
OBJECTIVE: Accurate informal carer assessment of patient symptoms is likely to be valuable for decision making in managing the high symptom burden of COPD in the home setting. Few studies have investigated agreement between...
Objective: Accurate informal carer assessment of patient symptoms is likely to be valuable for decision-making in managing the high symptom burden of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in the home setting. Few studies...
This chapter per the authors provides an in-depth overview of how the University of Massachusetts Amherst Libraries has leveraged historical connections and special collections to provide a robust foundation for justice, equity...
This paper re-assesses the treatment of religion in development studies 30 years after the publication of a special issue of World Development on “Religion and Development”. Given the changes in the social and political context...
This paper re-assesses the treatment of religion in development studies 30 years after the publication of a special issue of World Development on “Religion and Development”. Given the changes in the social and political context...
Using a sample of 848 workers in France, this article aims to explain problematic smartphone dependency, a behavior considered to have negative consequences for sufferers in the context of work. It examines whether and how...
PURPOSE: Nausea is a troublesome and distressing symptom for patients receiving chemotherapy. While vomiting is well controlled with current antiemetics, nausea is a more difficult symptom to manage. The aim of this study was to...
Space debris is causing steadily increasing risks but many objects are not identified, limiting the scope of removal missions. We propose a dynamic satellite constellation with multiple EM receivers and transmitters, enabling...
Space debris is causing steadily increasing risks but many objects are not identified, limiting the scope of removal missions. We propose a dynamic satellite constellation with multiple EM receivers and transmitters, enabling...
Chlamydia trachomatis and Waddlia chondrophila are strict intracellular bacteria belonging to the Chlamydiales order. C. trachomatis is the most frequent bacterial cause of genital and ocular infections whereas W. chondrophila...
Chlamydia trachomatis and Waddlia chondrophila are strict intracellular bacteria belonging to the Chlamydiales order. C. trachomatis is the most frequent bacterial cause of genital and ocular infections whereas W. chondrophila...
With 50 years of experience in outcome-based, assessment-driven education, Alverno faculty understand the value of student-centered learning as the cornerstone of curriculum design and pedagogical practice. On the scaffold of...
BACKGROUND: The management of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (aSAH) has changed dramatically in the last few decades with the publication of a few major studies, including ISAT (International Subarachnoid Aneurysm Trial, the...
CONTEXT: Chemotherapy-related nausea is experienced by most cancer patients receiving chemotherapy. Although vomiting is managed well with current antiemetics, nausea is difficult to manage and little is understood about its...