Publications by authors named "Li Min Qu"
Background: Early referral to palliative care (PC) services has been shown to improve quality of life in advanced cancer. However, limitations in trained PC workforce raise issues with the sustainability of delivering PC with early PC referral. Classifying PC into generalist and specialist components could be one approach to sustainable PC delivery models but a quantitative guide for this classification is presently lacking in the literature.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Renal replacement therapy (RRT) has not always been shown to benefit end-stage renal failure patients who are elderly or have multiple comorbidities in terms of survival or symptom control. Conservative management may be a viable alternative offering comparable health-related quality of life.
Methods: This is a prospective observational study of 101 patients who reached an estimated glomerular filtration rate of 8-12 ml/min and were either ≥75 years old or had an age-adjusted Charlson Comorbidity Index ≥8.
Context: The Kidney Disease Quality of Life (KDQOL™) instrument is widely used to assess care of end-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients.
Objectives: This study aimed to demonstrate the measurement properties of the Chinese (simplified characters) version of the KDQOL-Short Form™ (KDQOL-SF™) in ethnic Chinese ESRD patients in Singapore.
Methods: Seventy-eight new ESRD patients, initially conservatively managed, were interviewed and followed-up; 31 later commenced dialysis.
Objective: To explore the mechanism of "preventive acupuncture and moxibustion" for regulating hypothalamic function in ovariectomy rats.
Methods: Thirty female SD rats, aged 3.5 months, were randomly divided into normal group, sham operation group, ovariectomy model group, preventive acupuncture group and preventive moxibustion group.
Objective: To observe the effect of preventive acupuncture and moxibustion of "Guanyuan" (CV 4) on uterus in ovariectomized (OVX) rats.
Methods: A total of 80 female SD rats were randomly divided into 5 groups: normal control, sham-operation (sham), model, preventive acupuncture (PA) and preventive moxibustion (PM) groups, with 16 cases in each. PA (with the needle retained for 20 min after insertion) and PM (one moxa-cone/rat) were applied to "Guanyuan" (CV 4) separately before ovariectomy, two times a week, 4 weeks altogether.