Telenursing home care and COVID-19: a qualitative study.
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to many challenges such as increased number of patients and the risk of the disease progress in the world’s healthcare systems, especially nursing. The capacity [...]
View ArticlePalliative home care and emergency department visits in the last 30 and 90...
Evaluate the association of specialist palliative home care (HC) on emergency department (ED) visits in the 30 and 90 days prior to death.This retrospective cohort study using administrative data...
View ArticleBurnout in physicians: a survey of the Danish society for palliative medicine.
Burnout, which is a state of prolonged physical and psychological exhaustion, seems to be a prevalent and serious problem among healthcare workers. Our aim was to investigate the prevalence of [...]
View ArticleValidity and reliability of the Japanese version of the Peace, Equanimity,...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the Japanese version of the Peace, Equanimity, and Acceptance in the Cancer Experience questionnaire (PEACE-J) and to [...]
View ArticleAdvance Care Planning Among Chinese Americans Through a Web-Based Culturally...
At any time, a medical crisis could result in an individual too sick to make one’s own health care decisions. Advance care planning (ACP) is an important step to ensure [...]
View ArticleHealth Professionals’ Perspectives of the Role of Palliative Care During...
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in health professionals facing unprecedented challenges and changes in practice. Responding to humanitarian crises involves saving lives and reducing suffering and as...
View ArticleRobotic resection of an aortic valve fibroelastoma using a right lateral...
Robotic technology provides excellent visualization and surgical precision and it is reaching maturity in cardiac surgery, although mostly confined to mitral surgery and coronary revascularization....
View ArticleLong-Term Outcome for Covered Endovascular Reconstruction of Aortic...
The gold standard for the treatment of complex (TASC II C and D) atherosclerotic aortoiliac lesions is still open surgical repair. Endovascular techniques have a lower mortality and morbidity rate [...]
View ArticleMulticenter Experience With Large Diameter Balloon-Expandable Stent-Grafts...
To describe the use of large-diameter balloon-expandable stent-grafts (BeGraft aortic stent-graft, Bentley InnoMed GmbH, Hechingen, Germany) in the treatment of infrarenal penetrating aortic ulcer...
View ArticleFunctional Performance After Complex Endovascular Aortic Repair: A...
Complex endovascular aortic repair (EVAR) procedures provide a treatment option for patients with aortic aneurysms involving visceral branches. Good technical results and short-term outcomes have been...
View ArticleBack-Table Modified Stent-Graft for Endovascular Repair of Ascending Aorta.
To investigate the effectiveness of modified stent-grafts (SGs) for the management of ascending aortic pathologies.From January 2015 to December 2019, 31 individuals were treated by ascending aortic...
View ArticleIntracranial Hemorrhage After Endovascular Repair of Thoracoabdominal Aortic...
Intracranial hemorrhage (ICH) is a rare but devastating complication of thoracoabdominal aortic aneurysm (TAAA) repair with fenestrated/branched endograft (f/bEVAR). The cerebrospinal fluid drainage...
View ArticleKnowledge and practice of diabetic foot care and the prevalence of diabetic...
Diabetic foot ulcers (DFUs) are a common but serious complication of diabetes mellitus (DM). The factors distressing the worth of diabetic foot care (DFC) are knowledge and practice. Foot ulcers [...]
View Article‘One feels somewhere that one is insignificant in that system’– older...
When older multimorbid people are acutely hospitalized, continuity of care is a fundamental goal in the healthcare process. However, some acute hospitalized older multimorbid patients do not experience...
View ArticleRecumbent cycling to improve outcomes in people with hip fracture: a...
Early mobilization after surgery is a key recommendation for people with hip fracture, however this is achieved by only 50% of people. Recumbent bike riding has been used in other [...]
View ArticleAssociation of serum 25-hydroxyvitamin D with metabolic syndrome and type 2...
Vitamin D deficiency has been associated with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and metabolic syndrome (MS) and its components. However, it is unclear whether a low concentration of vitamin D is [...]
View ArticleExploring life-space in the nursing home. An observational longitudinal study.
Traditional performance-based measurements of mobility fail to recognize the interaction between the individual and their environment. Life-space (LS) forms a central element in the broader context of...
View ArticleBidirectional relationship between subjective age and frailty: a prospective...
Subjective age refers to how young or old individuals experience themselves to be and is associated with health status, behavioral, cognitive, and biological processes that influence frailty. However,...
View ArticleValidation of the revised 9-scale clinical frailty scale (CFS) in Greek...
Among many screening tools that have been developed to detect frailty in older adults, Clinical Frailty Scale (CFS) is a valid, reliable and easy-to-use tool that has been translated in [...]
View ArticleDomain-specific self-perceptions of aging are associated with different gait...
Previous studies have pointed to the impact of self-perceptions of aging (SPA) on self-reported physical function in later life. However, less is known about associations of SPA with objectively...
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