End-of-life pain medication among cancer patients in hospice settings.

Unlabelled: Cancer pain management in a hospice setting was studied in the present article. Drug treatments were studied at five time points: at the time of transfer to hospice, at 2nd day, two weeks, and two months following transfer to hospice care, as well as one day before death.

Patients And Methods: Records of 138 consecutive cancer patients treated in hospice in 2010 were studied regarding the drugs given during their stay.

The quality of internal medicine hospital care during summer holiday season.

Rationale, Aims And Objectives: The July/August Phenomenon is a period when the quality of care in hospitals is thought to decrease due to summer vacation stand-ins and new staff. The results of studies on the veracity of this claim have been conflicting. This study investigates the situation in internal medicine.

Desire for body contouring surgery after bariatric surgery: do body mass index and weight loss matter?

Background: There is disparity between the number of postbariatric surgery subjects who desire body contouring and those who receive it due to lack of resources or insurance criteria.

Objectives: The authors evaluate the desire for body contouring after bariatric surgery and its relationship with demographic patient characteristics.

Methods: Three hundred sixty patients who had undergone bariatric surgery procedures >1 year previously completed a questionnaire designed by the surgical team to analyze each patient's desire for body contouring by area (face, upper arm, upper back, chin/neck, chest/breast, waist/abdomen, lower back, rear/buttock), scored from 0 to 3 (do not want, want somewhat, want, want a great deal).

Health-related quality of life during adjuvant radiotherapy in breast cancer.

Objective: In this study, health- related quality of life (HRQoL) and its determinants were assessed in breast cancer patients undergoing postoperative adjuvant radiotherapy. The aim was to improve our understanding of patient's situation at the end of adjuvant treatment, as the return to every day life approaches after breast cancer surgery and adjuvant chemo- and radiotherapy.

Methods: Health- related quality of life was measured by the 15D instrument.