Correlates of return to work for breast cancer survivors.

Purpose: To identify correlates of return to work for employed breast cancer survivors.

Patients And Methods: Patients included 416 employed women with newly diagnosed breast cancer identified from the Metropolitan Detroit Cancer Surveillance System. Patients were interviewed by telephone 12 and 18 months after diagnosis.

The relative importance of physician communication, participatory decision making, and patient understanding in diabetes self-management.

Objective: Patients' self-management practices have substantial consequences on morbidity and mortality in diabetes. While the quality of patient-physician relations has been associated with improved health outcomes and functional status, little is known about the impact of different patient-physician interaction styles on patients' diabetes self-management. This study assessed the influence of patients' evaluation of their physicians' participatory decision-making style, rating of physician communication, and reported understanding of diabetes self-care on their self-reported diabetes management.

Obesity, adiposity, and lengthening of the QT interval: improvement after weight loss.

Objectives: To determine the prevalence of QT interval prolongation in patients referred to an outpatient clinic for treatment of obesity; and to describe the change in the QT interval during rapid weight loss with a very-low-calorie diet.

Design: Retrospective and prospective review of charts and electrocardiograms.

Subjects: Five hundred twenty-two obese patients (411 female, 112 males) with a mean age 44 (18-78 y) and a mean initial weight of 116 kg (63-285 kg) completing 26 weeks of treatment between September, 1989 through to December, 1993.