"Doing What Only I Can Do": Experiences From Participating in a Multimodal Exercise-Based Intervention in Older Patients With Advanced Cancer-A Qualitative Explorative Study.

Background: Sparse evidence exists regarding the feasibility and patients' experiences of exercise programs among older cancer populations.

Objective: The aim of this study was to explore the experiences of older patients with advanced cancer who participated in a 12-week supervised and multimodal exercise program in a hospital setting.

Methods: Individual interviews were conducted with 18 participants (≥65 years) with advanced cancer who completed the intervention program regardless of compliance rate.

Cancer patients, physicians, and nurses differ in their attitudes toward the decisional role in do-not-resuscitate decision-making.

Purpose: Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) decision-making in severely ill patients presents many difficult medical, ethical, and legal challenges. The primary aim of this study was to explore cancer patients' and health care professionals' attitudes regarding DNR decision-making authority and timing of the decision.

Methods: This study was a questionnaire survey among Danish cancer patients and their attending physicians and nurses in an oncology outpatient setting.

Old age and poor prognosis increase the likelihood of disagreement between cancer patients and their oncologists on the indication for resuscitation attempt.

Background: The do-not-resuscitate decision is a common ethical problem. However, the concordance between patients' preferences and physicians' assessments of the indication for cardiopulmonary resuscitation attempt (CPR) has only been modestly investigated.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine the impact of different patient characteristics on the following outcomes: (1) patients' wishes for or against CPR, (2) assessments made by physicians of the indication for CPR, and (3) the probability of discordance between patients' wishes and physicians' assessments.

Six years of experience with sacral nerve stimulation for fecal incontinence.

Purpose: Sacral nerve stimulation is one of many new surgical modalities for fecal incontinence. Short-term results from sacral nerve stimulation have been more encouraging than those from other modalities. The aim of this study was to report the outcome of percutaneous nerve evaluation tests and sacral nerve stimulation for the treatment of fecal incontinence from a single center covering a period of 6 years since the procedure was introduced.

Retention test in sacral nerve stimulation for fecal incontinence.

Introduction: Sacral nerve stimulation has become an established treatment for patients with fecal incontinence. However, the mechanism of its action remains obscure. We aim to assess whether sacral nerve stimulation improves patients' ability to retain rectal content.

A prospective, randomized study: switch off the sacral nerve stimulator during the night?

Purpose: Sacral nerve stimulation is an effective treatment for fecal incontinence. Some have recommended to "switch off" the pacemaker during the night to extend the lifetime of the expensive pacemaker. This study was designed to investigate whether a nightly "switch off" affects the clinical results of sacral nerve stimulation.

Impedance planimetric description of normal rectoanal motility in humans.

Purpose: Manometry and pressure-volume measurements are commonly used to study anorectal physiology. However, the methods are limited by several sources of error. Recently, a new impedance planimetric system has been introduced in a porcine model.

Rectal volume tolerability and anal pressures in patients with fecal incontinence treated with sacral nerve stimulation.

Purpose: Sacral nerve stimulation has proven to be a promising treatment for fecal incontinence when conventional treatment modalities have failed. There have been several hypotheses concerning the mode of action of sacral nerve stimulation, but the mechanism is still unclear. This study was designed to evaluate the results of rectal volume tolerability, rectal pressure-volume curves, and anal pressures before and six months after permanent sacral nerve stimulation and to investigate the mode of action of sacral nerve stimulation.

Urinary retention during sacral nerve stimulation for faecal incontinence: report of a case.

Sacral nerve stimulation (SNS) was proposed for the treatment of patients with urologic symptoms in 1967 but was not used until 1981. SNS has also proven to be a promising treatment in idiopathic faecal incontinence when conventional treatments have failed. The modality has been used for faecal incontinence since the mid-1990s.