Older patient
Student radiographers' attitudes toward the older patient: an intervention study
... elderly had more negative attitudes than those who worked with the well elderly. Attitudes of health practioners are an important predictor of the quality of care an older patient might receive, for example ...
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Tuberculous sacroiliitis with secondary psoas abscess in an older patient: a case report
... abscess was diagnosed. Skeletal TB with secondary abscess is most commonly seen in vertebral osteomyelitis, the sacroiliac joint is rarely affected. Previous case reports of tu- berculous sacroiliitis complicated by a ...
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Student radiographers' attitudes towards the older patient: a longitudinal study
... Given the above, a two-day programme was designed to ‘set’ student radiographer attitudes as positively as possible at an early stage in their training, such that they might be resilient to the factors that might result ...
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Clinical benefit and cost effectiveness of total knee arthroplasty in the older patient
... the older patient, since the demand for total hip and knee arthroplasty is catalyzed by both de- mographic changes and availability of effective and safe treatment ...the older patient, who ...
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Perforated Rectal Cancer Presenting as Fournier’s Gangrene in a Confused Older Patient
... Abstract: We present the case of an eighty-two-year-old man who presented with testicular pain, diarrhoea, fresh rectal bleeding, and weight loss. A clear history was not obtained because of presumed chronic confusion ...
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The Doctor, the older patient and the unmet need: The effect of a patient centred approach on unmet needs in older adults
... many older people are simply willing to live with some unmet needs without expressing ...that older people were more likely to seek help for unmet mobility needs than any other type of need, suggesting that ...
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Diagnostic challenges in the older patient
... their older patients for concomitant health issues that may impact clinical deci- sion making and patient ...managing older adult patients: Polypharmacy, cognitive issues, and increased risk of a ...
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Management of hyperlipidemia with statins in the older patient
... Abstract: Numerous randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies and observational studies have demonstrated that statins decrease mortality and major cardiovascular events in older high-risk persons with ...
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Interventions for involving older patients with multimorbidity in decision-making during primary care consultations
... that patient perceptions vary regarding what it means to be involved (Berkelmans 2010; Kiesler ...the older patient population with multimorbidity, without solely focusing on a shared decision-making ...
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Prognosis Comparison Molecular Subtype Breast Cancer between Young and Adult Women at General Hospital Dr. M Djamil Padang
... younger patient is higher than older patient in every molecular subtype, this is probably because accumulation of poor prognosis factors based on age group which is large tumor size, positive lymph ...
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Patient safety culture in care homes for older people: a scoping review
... The vast majority of studies on this topic included Nurs- ing Homes as a research setting (n = 24), and there was proportionately much less research into safety culture within Residential Homes (n = 2). The review ...
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Patient influence in home based reablement for older persons: qualitative research
... In this study, health workers were sometimes task ori- ented, others focused on motivating and supporting the elderly. The staff members mainly focused on patients’ everyday life and coping, while a shorter closing part ...
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... Moreover, in this study I focused on a small sample of older adults in Chapel Hill and implemented my survey at one geriatric clinic. The group of people that made up my sample happened to be exceptionally well ...
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Can education improve clinical practice concerning delirium in older hospitalised patients? Results of a pre-test post-test study on an educational intervention for nursing staff
... in, older (65+) hospitalised ...of older patients in hospital [1], yet only 2,5% to 5% are adequately diagnosed or reported [2, ...for older hospital patients at risk of de- veloping a ...in ...
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Correction for potentially inappropriate prescribing can increase specificity when using drug prescriptions as an adjunct to diagnostic codes to assess comorbidities in older patients
... The method we used, cancelling all drugs considered inappropriate by the Beers criteria can result in the potential loss of some diagnoses, but it increases the specificity and gives a more reliable idea of existing ...
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Older cancer patients' information and support needs surrounding treatment: An evaluation through the eyes of patients, relatives and professionals
... The present study employed a qualitative design using five focus group interviews and five face to face interviews. A semi-structured interview, which consisted of open-ended questions, was used to explore the opinions ...
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The evaluation of older patients with cervical cancer
... Conclusions: Cervical cancer has the same prognosis in old and young women. Age may not be an independent increased risk of death in women with cervical cancer, and the age-group is at lower risk for virulent HPV strands ...
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Adjuvant chemotherapy for colorectal cancer: age differences in factors influencing patients' treatment decisions
... in patient preferences, and practical considerations such a small one, the question then arises whether patients are best placed to make difficult treatment decisions at such a highly stressful ...to older ...
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Advance Alert Monitor
... provides patient care information. The team must learn to focus on the patient to be at the center of the intervention to understand how the signage to be a useful ...for patient and family on fall ...
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The Meaning of Patient-Nurse Interaction for Older Hospitalized Women: A Phenomenological Study
... the older hospitalized woman, cannot necessarily be strong or healthy if characterized by ...with older women maintaining a sense of personhood in a hospital ...
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