Ethics of Clinical Decision-Making for Older Drivers: Reporting Health-Related Driving Risk.

The number of older drivers will continue to increase as the population ages. Health care professionals have the responsibility of providing care and maintaining confidentiality for their patients while ensuring public safety. This article discusses the ethics of clinical decision-making pertaining to reporting health-related driving risk of older drivers to licensing authorities.

Exploring the measurement properties of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment in a population of people with cancer.

Background: Cancer and cancer-related treatments are associated with a constellation of physical and psychological changes. Treatments associated with noncentral nervous system neoplasms can have short- and long-term effects on cognition, affecting quality of life in people with cancer. Clinical measurement tools specific to cancer-related mild cognitive impairment (MCI) are lacking.

A prospective evaluation of an interdisciplinary nutrition-rehabilitation program for patients with advanced cancer.

Background: Cancer can affect many dimensions of a patient's life, and in turn, it should be targeted using a multimodal approach. We tested the extent to which an interdisciplinary nutrition-rehabilitation program can improve the well-being of patients with advanced cancer.

Methods: Between January 10, 2007, and September 29, 2010, 188 patients with advanced cancer enrolled in the 10-12-week program.

Effect of an interdisciplinary rehabilitation program on quality of life in patients with head and neck cancer: review of clinical experience.

Background: Patients with head and neck cancer experience complex posttreatment challenges. In a preliminary uncontrolled study, we evaluated the extent to which they can benefit from an interdisciplinary rehabilitation program.

Methods: Twenty-seven patients completed an 8-week nutrition-rehabilitation program.

Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis and assisted ventilation: how patients decide.

Background: Throughout the course of their illness, people with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) must make many treatment decisions; however, none has such a significant impact on quality of life and survival as decisions about assisted ventilation.

Objective: The purpose of this study was to better understand the experience of decision-making about assisted ventilation for ALS patients.

Methods: Using qualitative phenomenology methodology, 10 semi-structured interviews were conducted with persons with ALS and their caregivers to elicit factors that are pertinent to their decision-making process about assisted ventilation.