Nurses play a key role in integrating palliative care into oncology. This project sought to better understand oncology nurses' perspectives about palliative care. Nurses from a community hospital were presented with a series of clinical scenarios and asked to comment on the appropriateness of palliative care in each case.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Social support is a protective factor in the mental health of autistic people. Furthermore, prejudice regarding autistic people is a constraint for the development of social support programmes by autistic peers.
Methods: The objective of this study is to describe the anticipated acceptability of structured peer support programmes for and by autistic persons.
Optimising the discharge process for internal medicine programs is a challenge given multiple social and practical constraints in transitions from hospital to home. The objective of this study is to explore healthcare professionals' perspectives on discharge processes in internal medicine within a context of organisational reform. This is an interpretive descriptive qualitative study using in-depth individual interviews with healthcare providers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Living donor kidney transplantation (LDKT) has several advantages over deceased donor kidney transplantation. Yet rates of living donation are declining in Canada and there exists significant interprovincial variability. Efforts to improve living donation tend to focus on the patient and barriers identified at their level, such as not knowing how to ask for a kidney or lack of education.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe purpose of this qualitative study is to elucidate stakeholder perceptions of, and institutional practices related to cell-based therapies and products (CTP) regulation and commercialization in Canada. The development of reproducible, safe and effective CTPs is predicated on regulatory and commercialization environments that enable innovation. Manufacturing processes constitute a critical step for CTP development in this regard.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study aims to understand the influence of the ethical and legal issues on cloud computing adoption in the field of genomics research. To do so, we adapted Diffusion of Innovation (DoI) theory to enable understanding of how key stakeholders manage the various ethical and legal issues they encounter when adopting cloud computing. Twenty semi-structured interviews were conducted with genomics researchers, patient advocates and cloud service providers.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: The purpose of this study was to provide a more precise definition of an integrated oncogeriatric approach (IOGA) through concept analysis.
Data Sources: The literature was reviewed from January 2005 to April 2011 integrating three broad terms: geriatric oncology, multidisciplinarity and integrated care delivery models.
Study Eligibility Criteria: Citation selection was based on: (1) elderly cancer patients as the study population; (2) disease management and (3) case studies, intervention studies, assessments, evaluations and studies.