Assessing the Acceptability and Feasibility of Leveraging Emergency Department Social Workers' Advanced Communication Skills to Assess Elderly Patients' Goals and Values.

The Emergency Department (ED) has increasingly been recognized as an important site of care for older adults with unmet palliative care needs. Despite this, no clear model of care delivery has emerged. To assess the acceptability and feasibility of a scripted palliative care communication intervention in the ED directed by social workers.

Parental experiences with a hospital-based bereavement program following the loss of a child to cancer.

Objective: The death of a child from cancer is an intense and life-changing loss for a parent. Guided by the principles of patient- and family-centered care, hospital-based caregivers developed a program to provide bereavement support for parents through phone calls and mailings. The aim of the present qualitative phenomenological study was to understand how parents experienced participating in this bereavement program.

Screening for domestic violence in an oncology clinic: barriers and potential solutions.

Purpose/objectives: To evaluate the implementation of a domestic violence screening protocol in an oncology clinic.

Design: A retrospective review of a random sample of clinic medical records and qualitative surveys of nursing staff.

Setting: A gynecologic oncology clinic in a large teaching hospital.

[Clinical study on the pharmacological treatment of hemorrhoids with 0.25% oxethacaine chlorhydrate].

In this clinical study, the authors refer to a thirty-six month treatment of Grades I and II haemorrhoids (pharmacological treatment) with a group of 75 patients (45 females and 30 males) and treatment for Grades III and IV haemorrhoids (Pharmacological and surgical treatment) on a second group of 23 patients for a total of 98 patients treated and observed. For the pharmacological treatment, a rectal cream containing 0.25% Oxethacaine chlorhydrate (Emoren, produced by Novasorel, srl) was used on all patients.

Sexuality and cancer: conversation comfort zone.

Shortly before his death in 1995, Kenneth B. Schwartz, a cancer patient at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), founded The Kenneth B. Schwartz Center at MGH.