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J Weeks

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PubMed1990

Quality of life in cancer patients: clinical considerations and perspectives.

Maintaining "quality of life" for a cancer patient is analogous to caring for the "whole" patient. Such care should include integration of multispecialty services, on-going patient education, attention to supportive care, and efforts to achieve organ preservation. Also to be taken into account are such factors as the extraordinarily heterogeneous backgrounds of cancer patients, the degree of involvement of the patient's family, and the financial implications of cancer and its treatment. These considerations require the primary physician and the rest of the care team to individualize their approach to each patient. All medical personnel must also realize that effective, honest communication may improve quality of life, even in those patients whose medical conditions are the poorest.

Attitude to Health↗
PubMed1982

Services for pregnant teenagers in the large cities of the United States, 1970-1980.

This article reports the findings of the third national survey of services for and needs of pregnant teenagers and their infants in the large cities of the United States, done in 1979-1980. Only five cities have developed a new program since 1976, and major unmet needs continue to exist. The survey also provides baseline data on the status of health, social, and educational care for this target population. With the substantial decrease in the various sources of federal funds due to current budgetary reduction, continued monitoring is required to determine the effects on services for pregnant teenagers and their infants, as well as on the incidence of teenage pregnancy.

Abortion, Legal↗
PubMed1981

Characteristics of older patients in an urban teaching practice.

This study describes demographic, residential, health, and utilization characteristics of patients over 70 years of age followed in a hospital-based teaching group practice. Most of the patients were able to maintain an independent or semi-independent life, living either alone or with relatives. The use of formal support services, such as the visiting nurse association and social services, was common in all age groups. While 25 percent of the patients younger than 80 years used some formal support service, the frequency increased dramatically with age, doubling to 50 percent for those in their 80s and reaching 65 percent among those 90 or older. The training of physicians should include opportunities to manage for an extended period of time a cohort of elderly, independent, ambulatory patients. A hospital-based group-teaching practice provides a setting where residents have the opportunity to develop these skills with the assistance of experienced practitioners, nurses, and social workers.

Age Factors↗
PubMed1978

Decreased fructose concentrations in coagulating glands of prepuberal rats treated with testosterone and LH.

Doses of testosterone propionate from 2.5 to 320 microgram and doses of LH from 2 to 360 microgram given over 1--3 days generally decreased fructose/body weight ratios in the coagulating glands of late prepuberal rats. The ratios of testes, seminal vesicles, coagulating glands and ventral prostates to body weight were increased after different treatment regimes with testosterone propionate. These changes in the variables measured could be detected by computer analysis in spite of the rapid growth rates of organs of rats of this age. LH increased the weights of only the seminal vesicles and coagulating glands, and then, only at the highest doses given.

Animals↗
PubMed1976

Distribution of room size in hospitals.

In the design of such complex buildings as hospitals the planner's problem is to provide a minimal amount of permanent structure so that it shall not get in the way of functional behavior of the occupants and their ability to change their environment. The purpose of this study was to discover which intervals seem to occur in hospitals by measuring the room size distribution found in existing buildings or buildings ready for construction. The results seem to confirm that the range of room sizes required is small and that exceptions are relatively rare.

Environment Design↗
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Hospitals for health.

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History, 20th Century↗
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Pioneering change.

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