Assessing Long-Term Quality of Life Concerns Through Survivorship Clinic in Head and Neck Cancer Patients.

Objective: To characterize the concerns of head and neck cancer (HNC) patients and discern changes in quality-of-life (QoL) during long-term follow-up.

Study Design: Retrospective review.

Setting: Survivorship clinic at a tertiary academic center.

The Power of Family Engagement in Rounds: An Exemplar With Global Outcomes.

Family engagement in rounds has been recommended to improve communication, but its impact on patient outcomes is unknown. At the authors' institution, nurses encouraged family presence at rounds as part of a larger project to enhance communication during rounding. In the case reported here, family engagement resulted in a critical care patient's wife suggesting bacteriophage therapy, which led to her husband's survival.