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Cancer-Related Pain in Older Adults Receiving Palliative Care: Patient and Family Caregiver Perspectives on the Experience of Pain
(2013-1-1)
BACKGROUND: Despite an emphasis on pain management in palliative care, pain continues to be a common problem for individuals with advanced cancer. Many of those affected are older due to the disproportionate incidence of ...
Combination of Culture, Antigen and Toxin Detection, and Cytotoxin Neutralization Assay for Optimal Clostridium difficile Diagnostic Testing
(2013-1-1)
BACKGROUND: There has been a growing interest in developing an appropriate laboratory diagnostic algorithm for Clostridium difficile, mainly as a result of increases in both the number and severity of cases of C difficile ...
Home Health Care and Family Responsibility: A critical discourse analysis of talk and text
(Longwoods, 2013-10)
This paper addresses how families’ roles and responsibility for care are constructed within home health (in contrast to the responsibility of home health). A discourse analysis informed by a critical theoretical approach ...
Directing Therapy in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension Using a Target 6 Min Walk Distance
(2013-1-1)
BACKGROUND: The most effective approaches to escalating advanced therapies in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) are controversial.OBJECTIVE: To compare outcomes before and after introducing a target 6 min walk distance ...
Meaning-making and managing difficult feelings: providing front-line end of life care
(Sage, 2013-12)
Managing grief and difficult emotions related to end of life (EOL) care is an often under-recognized part of the work of resident care aides (RCAs). In this interpretive analysis we explore the shared and socially constructed ...
Antibiotic Resistance and Expression Of Resistance-Nodulation-Division Pump- and Outer Membrane Porin-Encoding Genes in Acinetobacter Species Isolated from Canadian Hospitals
(2013-1-1)
BACKGROUND: Bacterial pathogens belonging to the genus Acinetobacter cause serious infections in immunocompromised individuals that are very difficult to treat due to their extremely high resistance to many antibiotics.OBJECTIVE: ...
Marked Disparity in the Epidemiology of Tuberculosis among Aboriginal Peoples on the Canadian Prairies: the Challenges and Opportunities
(2013-1-1)
BACKGROUND: While it is established that Aboriginal peoples in the prairie provinces of Canada are disproportionately affected by tuberculosis (TB), little is known about the epidemiology of TB either within or across ...
Sex as an Independent Prognostic Factor in a Population-Based, Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer Cohort
(2013-1-1)
BACKGROUND: Males with non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) tend to experience worse outcomes, as do those with nonadenocarcinoma histology; however, the independent effects of these factors remain unclear.OBJECTIVE: To ...
Potential Consequences of Essential Drug Shortages in Canada: Brain Abscess due to Nocardia farcinica Associated with Dapsone Prophylaxis for Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia
(2013-1-1)
In 2012, Canadian pharmacies experienced a shortage of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole tablets. Drug shortages may result in unintended clinical consequences such as infection with pathogens against which the alternative ...