'': an audience response to an art installation representing the complexity of congenital heart disease and heart transplantation.

The arts can aid the exploration of individual and collective illness narratives, with empowering effects on both patients and caregivers. The artist, partly acting as conduit, can translate and re-present illness experiences into artwork. But how are these translated experiences received by the viewer-and specifically, how does an audience respond to an art installation themed around paediatric heart transplantation and congenital heart disease? The installation, created by British artist Sofie Layton and titled , was presented at an arts-and-health event.

The terminal cancer patient: effects of age, gender, and primary tumor site on opioid dose.

Objective: The objective of the current study is to describe correlations between age, gender, and primary cancer site and sustained-release opioid doses prescribed for hospice patients at the end of life.

Patients And Setting: This study included all 7,201 hospice patients referred to a North American palliative care specialty pharmacy with the primary diagnosis of cancer and who were prescribed transdermal fentanyl, sustained-release oral morphine, or sustained-release oxycodone.

Design: This is a retrospective analysis of the final sustained-release morphine, oxycodone, or transdermal fentanyl doses prescribed to cancer patients, according to pharmacy records.