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C E Schmidt

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PubMed1990

Marketing the home healthcare agency. Do nurses and physicians agree?

Increasingly, hospital nurse administrators are being called upon to organize and implement home care services and to market these services to physicians, patients, and family members. A survey of hospital personnel revealed that both nurses and physicians perceived themselves as the persons primarily responsible for determining the patient's need for postdischarge home care. In listing criteria for selecting a home care agency for patient referral, nurses and physicians rated service dependability and nursing care quality as the most important criteria.

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PubMed1983

Adaptive computation of articulatory parameters from the speech signal.

An unconstrained optimization technique is used to find the values of parameters, of a combination of an articulatory and a vocal tract model, that minimize the difference between model spectra and natural speech spectra. The articulatory model is anatomically realistic and the vocal tract model is a "lossy" Webster equation for which a method of solution is given. For English vowels in the steady state, anatomically reasonable articulatory configurations whose corresponding spectra match those of human speech to within 2 dB have been computed in fewer than ten iterations. Results are also given which demonstrate a limited ability of the system to track the articulatory dynamics of voiced speech.

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PubMed1975

Combination chemotherapy with vincristine, cyclophosphamide, and prednisone producing long-term remission of a transplanted canine lymphoma.

Lymphoma developed in 6 neonatal pups inoculated with 1.0 to 2.06 X 10(9) cells of the 2nd in vivo passage of a canine lymphoma. Three to 4 weeks later (or 8 weeks after the pups had been inoculated), 3 of the 6 pups were started on a chemotherapeutic regimen consisting of vincristine, prednisone, and cyclophosphamide. Twelve to 19 days after combination chemotherapy was started, clinically efident lymphoma disappeared in the 3 pups. Period of treatment was 49 to 84 days. The dogs remained healthy and lymphoma was in complete remission approximately 2 years later. The 3 nontreated pups, used as controls, died of generalized lymphoma 45 to 86 days after inoculation. Seemingly, chemotherapy eradicated the bulk of the tumor, and the host immune response was capable of eliminating residual neoplastic cells. Also, transplanted canine lymphoma seems amenable to treatment and may be curable with combination chemotherapy--thus possibly serving as an experimental therapeutic model.

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Factors influencing sexual function in patients with rectal cancer.

Only few studies have investigated the impact of surgery for rectal cancer on sexual function. Little of that research included quality of life (QoL) aspects and hardly any study analyzed the impact of age, gender and type of surgery on sexual function. The aim of the presented study was to address these issues. Over a 5 y period, EORTC-QLQ-C-30 and a tumor-specific module were prospectively administered to patients before surgery, at discharge, 3, 6, 12 and 24 months postoperatively. Comparisons were made between patients receiving abdominoperineal resection (APR), anterior resection (AR) with or without Pouch and Sigmoid resection. Furthermore, effects of surgery on female and male patients, and age groups were analyzed. A total of 819 patients participated in the study: 412 were males and 407 were females. The groups were comparable in terms of adjuvant treatment, tumor stage and histology. Patients after APR and AR with Pouch had worst sexual function. Men reported significantly more difficulties with sexual enjoyment; furthermore, over time, sexual problems created high levels of strain in men that were worse than baseline levels in the early postoperative period. These problems tended to remain. Patients aged 69 y and younger scored higher for problems with loss of sexual function and sexuality-related strain than patients aged 70 y and older. The findings in this study confirm that QoL changes postsurgery and that factors like type of surgery, gender and age have tremendous impact on sexual function and sexual enjoyment. APR and AR with Pouch affect sexual function more than AR and resection of the lower sigmoid. Through impaired sexual enjoyment, men are put more under strain than women. Patients aged 69 y and younger experience more stress through deteriorated sexual function.

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