Publications by authors named "A Chirac"

Background: Adults with congenital heart disease (ACHD) have increased risk of arrhythmias warranting implantation of cardiac implantable electronic devices (CIEDs), which may parallel the observed increase in survival of ACHD patients over the past few decades. We sought to characterize the trends and outcomes of CIED implantation in the inpatient ACHD population across US from 2005 to 2019.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of the Nationwide Inpatient Sample (NIS) identified 1,599,519 unique inpatient ACHD admissions (stratified as simple (85.

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Objective: The purpose of the study was to arrive at an accurate description of health-related quality of life of hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia patients.

Methods: Thirteen semi-structured interviews were conducted in patients with hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.

Results: Qualitative grounded theory analyses were performed using the participants' transcripts and revealed the following six categories: Impact of physical symptoms on daily life, Quality of family and social life, Emotional and psychological outcomes related to the disease, Knowledge having a severe disease and coping strategies to manage such disease, Recognition of the disease by professional colleagues and superiors, and Knowledge and understanding from health professionals in medical care.

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Background: Procedural pain reduces the quality of life of cancer patients. Although there are recommendations for its prevention, there are some obstacles for its management. The purpose of this study was to analyze the barriers to procedural pain prophylaxis in cancer patients reflecting the views of the nurses.

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Objective: Women with gynecological cancer have been reported as very high users of complementary medicine. The goal of our study was to explore the perceptions of patients with an advanced gynecological cancer who use naturopathy as complementary medicine. We were looking more specifically at patients' opinions on the effect of naturopathy on their quality of life and its relation to conventional oncological treatments.

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Objectives: Active treatment withholding and withdrawing decisions in the emergency room (ER) must be taken collegially according to ethical and juridical statements. Specific tools can support this process and our main goal was to create and validate such a tool.

Method: We created a first version of a tool to help for treatment withholding and withdrawing decisions inspired by similar documents from literature.

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