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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 32, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedInternational guidelines recommend confidentiality for adolescents in a medical setting, and evidence shows that assurances of confidentiality are highly valued by young people and influence their willingness to attend...
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From:China Media Report Overseas (Vol. 6, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedEver since the outbreak of the HIV/AIDS, a culture of apathy has developed in the media and in the Nigerian public over this public health problem. The initial attitude is that HIV/AIDS is not an "African disease" and...
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From:Kai Tiaki: Nursing New Zealand (Vol. 15, Issue 11) Peer-ReviewedWriters in the three preceding issues of this journal call for nurses to raise their professional visibility and voice. (1, 2,3,4) One such is Suzanne Gordon, a journalist interested in the relationship between nursing...
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From:Practice Nurse (Vol. 36, Issue 1)There is clear evidence to support the claim that people typically overvalue things that are rare, dwindling in availability or difficult to acquire. Behavioural researchers Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky (2) were the...
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From:Intensive and Critical Care Nursing (Vol. 22, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSummary Patients on intensive care units (ICU) have difficulty with communication [Menzel LK. Factors related to the emotional responses of intubated patients to being unable to speak. Heart Lung 1998; 27(4):245-52]....
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 20, Issue 44) Peer-ReviewedAs a person-centred planning facilitator at Mencap, my role is to support adults with learning disabilities. This includes identifying their health needs and aiding their communication with health professionals. This...
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From:Patient Care (Vol. 35, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedARTICLE CONSULTANTS JEROME E. GROOPMAN, MD, is Dina and Raphael Recanati Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass; and Chief, Division of Experimental Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical...
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From:Journal of Clinical Pathology (Vol. 55, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective: To describe practical experiences in the sharing of very large digital data bases of histopathological imagery via the Internet, by investigators working in Europe, North America, and South America....
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 316, Issue 7144) Peer-ReviewedChildren are significant consumers of health care, and particular skills are required to communicate with them and provide them with care. Children may have feelings, symptoms, fears, or concerns not adequately or...
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From:Patient Care (Vol. 32, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedAt age 99 years, my oldest patient is a great-great-grandmother. Mine. H is the last link to my country doc past, a French-speaking woman who never learned English. As I pulled up to Mme. H's home in my modern-day...
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From:Patient Care (Vol. 27, Issue 7) Peer-ReviewedPhysicians sometimes have problems discussing illness with patients, but when the patients do not speak the same language as the physician, the communication can falter through the translation process. Several ways to...
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From:Patient Care (Vol. 28, Issue 19) Peer-ReviewedA sample conversation between a patient and a physician helps physicians improve their communication with patients. The sample involves closing a lengthy conversation so the physician could reassure the patient without...
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From:American Behavioral Scientist (Vol. 38, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedHealth communication professionals need to be familiar with emerging technologies to ensure that they are adequately prepared for the advent of the vaunted information superhighway. Communication proofessionals, in...
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From:Patient Care (Vol. 30, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe rate at which prescription drugs are given over-the-counter status emphasizes the need for physicians to discuss self-prescribing habits with patients. Drugs approved for the new status include H2-blockers, nicotine...
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From:Patient Care (Vol. 30, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedA physician notes the similarities in care he provides to his patients and his wife provides to her roses. Both groups are seen as in need of tender care. The physician had his teaching group distribute roses to patients...
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From:American Medical Writers Association Journal (Vol. 31, Issue 1)Introduction Any type of medical writing that reports data needs to undergo some type of quality control (QC) to ensure that documents or other materials are not riddled with errors. Quality control may involve a...
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From:CMAJ: Canadian Medical Association Journal (Vol. 189, Issue 28) Peer-ReviewedThe baby book said to rock a crying infant at the same pace as a mother's heart rate: 60-100 beats/min. At that speed, it's not rocking, really; just an oscillating pressure on the ball of one foot if your legs are...
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From:Canadian Journal of Surgery (Vol. 61, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedAs our surgical program has rapidly expanded, new modalities are required for safe, effective and efficient communication. In this discussion we review how we have used Web-based survey tools, the Signal instant...
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From:Nursing Standard (Vol. 25, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedPatient diaries introduced at a leading London hospital are helping patients who become tongue-tied when they are seen by a doctor. The diaries were devised at University College London Hospital by ward sisters...
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From:MedSurg Nursing (Vol. 20, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedUsing steps in the Iowa Model of Evidence-Based Practice, nursing staff developed and piloted a standardized shift report tool on one medical-surgical unit in a large tertiary care hospital. Pilot outcomes showed shift...