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Chen Lin, MS, RN, is Nurse, Wound Care Center, The Eastern Theater Command General Hospital in Nanjing, China. At the Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangdong, China, Hu Ailing, MS, is Chief Nurse; Li Caifei, BS, is Supervisory Nurse; and Liu Yuan, MS, is Associate Chief Nurse.
Objective: To analyze the occurrence of symptoms and quality of life (QoL) among patients with chronic wounds and the impact of chronic wounds on QoL.
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Development and Effects of a Smartphone Application to Improve Self-Management in Workers Who Underwent Thyroid Cancer Surgery.
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Author Affiliations: Department of Nursing, Kangbuk Samsung Hospital, Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine (Dr Kim); and College of Nursing, Hanyang University (Dr Hwang), Seoul, Republic of Korea.
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Department of Psychiatry, Shiga University of Medical Science, Otsu, Japan.
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Programa de Pós-graduação em Odontologia, Escola de Ciências da Saúde e da Vida, Pontifícia Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, RS, Brazil.
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Could Nocturnal Chronic Hypoxia Cause Ocular Surface Symptoms by Affecting Limbal Epithelial Cells in Patients With Obstructive Sleep Apnea?
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Department of Pulmonology, Trakya University Faculty of Medicine, Edirne, Turkey; and.
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