Publications by authors named "Dominique Michel"

Background: Prolonged grief is a chronic and debilitating condition that affects millions of persons worldwide. The aim of this study was to use a qualitative approach to better understand how relatives with prolonged grief disorder perceive what does or not help them and whether they were able to make recommendations.

Methods: Participants were all relatives of deceased patients admitted to 26 palliative care units involved in the FamiLife study; relatives were included if diagnosed with prolonged grief symptoms (i.

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Objectives: Psychological consequences of grief among relatives are insufficiently known. We reported incidence of prolonged grief among relatives of deceased patients with cancer.

Methods: Prospective cohort study of 611 relatives of 531 patients with cancer hospitalized for more than 72 hours and who died in 26 palliative care units was conducted.

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Introduction: Current methods of training microsurgical interventions have various limitations, including limited transferability to the human model, economic demands, and ethical concerns. In this article, we show how surgery simulations can overcome these issues and how, combined with the application of an intelligent tutoring system (ITS), they can be used to train tasks in ophthalmic surgery more efficiently.

Methods: We investigated physician trainee efficiency of learning microsurgical skills using our purpose-built microsurgery simulator that tracks a micromanipulator and displays a three-dimensional representation of the interior of a human eye in an augmented reality (AR) headset.

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Background: Grieving relatives can suffer from numerous consequences like anxiety, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, and prolonged grief. This study aims to assess the psychological consequences of grieving relatives after patients' death in French palliative care units and their needs for support.

Methods: This is a prospective observational multicenter mixed study.

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Dihydroxylation of a variety of commercially available polyenes has been investigated using phenylboronic acid, N-methylmorpholine N-oxide (NMO), and osmium tetroxide in anhydrous solvent. The diastereoselectivity of multiple oxidation steps is in some cases affected by the in situ protection of the intermediate ene-diols as phenyboronic esters, affording polyols not available from the standard Upjohn dihydroxylation procedure. A convenient oxidative deprotection of the phenylboronic esters is also described.

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