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From:Diabetes Forecast (Vol. 65, Issue 2)* Parents can help their young adult children make a smooth transition from pediatric to adult diabetes care, according to an American Diabetes Association statement concerning 18-to 30-year-olds who are becoming...
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From:Primary Health Care (Vol. 21, Issue 10)Assisted suicide Guidance for nurses and healthcare assistants on how to respond to requests from patients related to assisted suicide has been produced by the RCN. It reinforces that assisting a suicide is illegal...
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From:Diabetes and Primary Care (Vol. 12, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedSelf-monitoring of blood glucose (SMBG) is a routine part of diabetes self-management but its value in people with non-insulin treated diabetes remains unclear. This article reports on the development of a local...
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From:Pharmaceutical Medicine (Vol. 23, Issue 5-6) Peer-ReviewedBackground: People with chronic conditions are better able to self-manage if they are more engaged, informed, and confident. Healthcare providers are increasingly offering support for self-management, and there is...
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From:Mental Health Practice (Vol. 12, Issue 9) Peer-ReviewedNATIONAL LOTTERY cash is being provided for a programme across Wales to train 900 people with severe mental health problems, such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder, to self-manage their conditions. The Mental Health...
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From:Journal of Diabetes Nursing (Vol. 11, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedSelf management has been the theme of a lot of work carried out by the NHS National Diabetes Support Team (NDST) in the past few weeks. The Year of Care for Diabetes project was kicked off with a call for applications...
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From:Youth Studies Australia (Vol. 24, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn 1998, 2,880 Year 4 and Year 8 students were monitored for a new curriculum combining health education, physical education and aspects of home economics, which was introduced in New Zealand in 1999. The children were...
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From:Pediatrics (Vol. 108, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedObjective. Activated charcoal (AC) is recognized as the treatment of choice for gastrointestinal decontamination after many ingestions. AC use in the home has been limited by concerns that parents would not administer...
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From:Thorax (Vol. 58, Issue 2) Peer-Reviewed10.1 PERSONALISED ASTHMA ACTION PLANS Written personalised action plans as part of self-management education have been shown to improve health outcomes for people with asthma. (237 413 419 438 442-449) The evidence...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 320, Issue 7229) Peer-ReviewedEDITOR--Lahdensuo writes in favour of guided self management plans in patients with asthma and indicates what skills patients might acquire and who may be suitable.[1] However, the evidence cited from a recent Cochrane...
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From:British Medical Journal (Vol. 316, Issue 7147) Peer-ReviewedIt may be in the interests of a managed care organization to encourage self care when it is applicable, in order to maintain access to physicians and services in other instances. Many patients traditionally tend to their...
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From:Journal of Family Practice (Vol. 42, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedBackground. The purpose of this study was to assess the behavior and preferences of patients regarding family involvement in their routine health care visits. Methods. A self-administered questionnaire was given to a...
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From:The Hastings Center Report (Vol. 25, Issue 6) Peer-ReviewedThe house officer groans inwardly as the alcoholic reappears in the emergency room with his eighteenth--or is that nineteenth?--bout of acute pancreatitis. The internist sighs as she examines the obese, diabetic,...
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From:Saudi Journal of Kidney Diseases and Transplantation (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedByline: Reem. Alhameedi, Jacqueline. Collier For patients to be started on peritoneal dialysis (PD), they need to be trained on how to perform dialysis at home. Understanding how to carry out dialysis is difficult...
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From:Journal of the International AIDS Society (Vol. 19, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedObjectives: HIV counselling and testing is critical to HIV prevention and treatment efforts. Mass campaigns may be an effective strategy to increase HIV testing in countries with generalized HIV epidemics. We assessed...
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From:BioMed Research InternationalPeer-ReviewedBackground. Antibiotics are responsible for most dramatic improvement in medical therapy in history. These medications contributed significantly to the decreasing mortality and morbidity when prescribed based on...
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From:Diabetes Care (Vol. 37, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOBJECTIVE The study seeks to improve access for underserved patients via novel integration of Pedi-Flite (a critical care transport team) and to validate whether this safely enhances diabetes care and effectively...
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From:Nephrology Nursing Journal (Vol. 40, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedThe study was to examine the effects of a six-month educational program aiming acquisition of self-management skills on patients with diabetic nephropathy, One-group, pre- and post-test design was performed....
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From:Clinical Nursing Research (Vol. 5, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedOver 2,000 lung and heart-lung transplants have been performed at sites across the world (Kaye, 1992). Lung and heart-lung transplantations offer persons with terminal lung diseases a chance for survival. This surgical...
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From:MedSurg Nursing (Vol. 27, Issue 5) Peer-ReviewedMany articles that appear in MEDSURG Nursing focus on best practices for clinical care. These include disease prevention guidelines similar to those reflected in this issue. For example, Blume Turbeville, Conner,...