Ethical Dilemmas in Physicians' Consultations with COPD Patients.

Aim: This phenomenological study was aimed at exploring principal physicians' (participants') experience of attending to COPD patients and motivating their self-management, in light of the GOLD clinical guidelines of COPD therapy.

Methods: Interviews were conducted with nine physicians, who had referred patients to PR, five general practitioners (GPs) and four lung specialists (LSs). The interviews were recorded, transcribed, and analyzed through a process of deconstruction and reconstruction.

Frustrated Caring: Family Members' Experience of Motivating COPD Patients Towards Self-Management.

Aim: The aim of this phenomenological study was to explore principal family members' experience of motivating patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) towards self-management.

Methods: Interviews were conducted with 10 family members (spouses and adult children) of COPD patients. The interviews were audio recorded, transcribed and analyzed thematically.

COPD patients' experiences, self-reported needs, and needs-driven strategies to cope with self-management.

COPD is a common cause of morbidity and mortality. The aim of this study was to explore patients' experiences, self-reported needs, and needs-driven strategies to cope with self-management of COPD. In this phenomenological study, 10 participants with mild to severe COPD were interviewed 1-2 times, until data saturation was reached.

Existential struggle and self-reported needs of patients in rehabilitation.

Aim: This paper is a report of a study to increase understanding of patients' experience of rehabilitation and their self-reported needs in that context.

Background: Nurses need to be able to recognize patient needs to plan effective and individualized care. Needs-led nursing care is emphasized in the nursing literature, but few studies in rehabilitation have explored needs from the patient's perspective.

Altered expression of E-cadherin in breast cancer. patterns, mechanisms and clinical significance.

Reduced cell adhesion brought about by altered surface expression of E-cadherin has been implicated in invasive and metastatic malignant growth. We investigated the patterns of immunohistochemical E-cadherin expression in 120 breast carcinomas. Furthermore, we analysed DNA from the same samples for loss of heterozygosity (LOH) using three separate microsatellite markers on chromosome 16q22.