J Int Assoc Physicians AIDS Care (Chic)
February 2011
This qualitative study identifies the types of professional expertise that physicians are seen to possess in clinical encounters from the perspective of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA). Respondents looked to their physicians for expert knowledge in 3 key areas: medical/clinical; legal/statutory; and ethical/moral. Physicians were seen to be authorities in each of these areas and their judgments, though not always agreed with, were taken seriously and influenced the health care decisions made by PLWHA.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Assoc Nurses AIDS Care
July 2002
The objective of this article is to provide a qualitative analysis of the practical concerns that people with HIV/AIDS have with regard to their use of complementary therapies. In-depth semistructured interviews were conducted with a diverse range of people with HIV/AIDS (N = 46). An inductive grounded approach was used to collect and analyze the data.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThis study examines the meanings that individuals with HIV attach to their use of complementary therapies. A qualitative analysis of 66 interviews completed between 1993 and 1998 showed that complementary therapies represent different things for these individuals--a health maintenance strategy, a healing strategy, an alternative to Western medicine, a way of mitigating the side-effects of drug therapies, a strategy for maximizing quality of life, a coping strategy, and a form of political resistance. We found that the meanings individuals ascribe to complementary therapies and the benefits they expect to derive from them are not idiosyncratic, but linked to social characteristics--sexuality, ethnocultural background, gender--and to beliefs about health and illness, values and experiences.
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December 1994
For determination of cefuroxime activity, MIC was determined for 320 strains and by a diffusion-disc method susceptibility to this antibiotic of 3321 microorganisms isolated from children treated in Institute of Mother and Child was tested. Therapeutic value of axetil cefuroxime in suspension (Zinnat-Glaxo) was determined basing on specific and bacteriologically monitored treatment of 30 children (22 with respiratory tract infections and 8 with urinary tract infections). Etiological agents of these infections were: M.
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December 1994
The material consisted of 902 strains isolated from children with urinary tract infection with significant bacteriuria. Among isolated strains, Enterobacteriaceae consisted 67.4%, Gram-positive cocci 18.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSusceptibility of 1893 strains of bacteria responsible for infections in children treated in the Institute of Mother and Child in 1991 was investigated. Sensitivity to cefuroxime, cefamandole, cefotaxime, ceftriaxone and ceftazidime were tested by application of discs produced by Bio-Mérieux. MIC for cefuroxime against selected clinical strains was determined by a solid medium dilution method.
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