Purpose To provide guidance to oncology clinicians on how to use effective communication
to optimize the patient-clinician relationship, patient and clinician well-being, and family well-…

… Ferrell and Coyle lament that communication between nurses and patients is often reduced
to “patient teaching” when so much more is possible. Why, they implore, has nursing not …

DEFINING SUFFERING disease (8, 9, 15). The following discussion proposes a clinically
relevant definition of suffering. Then, based on a review of the existing data on pain and …

The Memorial Syptom Assessment Scale (MSAS) is a new patient-rated instrument that was
developed to provide multidimensional information about a diverse group of common …

… Wade N. Race is seen as real guide to track roots of disease. New York Times. … One
example is N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2), an enzyme involved in the detoxification of many …

Despite the importance of symptom control in the cancer population, few studies have
systematically assessed the prevalence and characteristics of symptoms or the interactions …

There is a great variability among advanced cancer patients in the experience of symptoms
and their impact on life's activities. A subgroup of difficult patients particularly tax the clinical …

Age and sex differences in the use of coping and defense strategies were examined in a life-span
sample of 381 individuals. Participants responded to 2 self-report measures assessing …

Context: During the 1980s and 1990s, innovations in the organization, funding, and delivery
of primary health care in Canada were at the periphery of the system rather than at its core. …

… : 362 subjects with asthma (Mexican: n=181, Puerto Rican: n=181) and 359 ethnically
matched healthy controls (Mexican: n=181, Puerto Rican: n=178). The Mexican and Puerto Rican …