Publications by authors named "L Ghirotto"

Introduction: This study examines how gastric cancer patients adjust their eating habits and quality of life after total gastrectomy, particularly concerning early satiety. While total gastrectomy may provide a potential cure, it also leads to significant physical, psychological, and social changes. Understanding these adaptations is essential for enhancing survivorship care.

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Objective: This study aimed to understand the dynamics of including Pathologists' Assistants in a surgical pathology department.

Methods: A qualitative ethnographic study employed covert participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Field notes and interview transcripts were descriptively analysed to identify categories.

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Background: Despite the wealth of evidence-based practices attesting to the influence of patient dignity on the care relationship, gaps persist in healthcare professionals' abilities to bolster it. Promoting dignity-in-care poses a challenge due to the abstract nature of the concept and its lack of unequivocal definition.

Objective: To delineate the scope of training opportunities, identify gaps in dignity-in-care training, excluding the broader concept of dignity beyond healthcare assistance, and propose strategies to address these deficiencies.

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Purpose: Advances in cancer detection and treatment have extended cancer survivors' (CSs) life expectancy, but their evolving health needs remain unmet. This study analyzes 14 patient-reported outcome measures (PROMs) for CSs with non-cutaneous cancers using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) framework. These 14 PROMs are derived from a recent review focusing on the implementation of the routine assessment of unmet needs in cancer survivors.

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Background: The optimal management of cutaneous melanoma is based on implementing a multidisciplinary tumour board. No studies report cutaneous melanoma patients' perspective along the whole care pathway, taking us through their care experience longitudinally.

Aims: To explore the patients' perspective on the cutaneous melanoma care journey in a skin cancers' tertiary referral centre.

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