Nurse recovery groups--what are they?
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Biomedical subjects
P O'Brien
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'All a woman's life can bring': the domestic roots of nursing in Philadelphia, 1830-1885.
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Education, Nursing↗
Impact of psychologic functioning, medical severity, and family functioning in pediatric heart transplantation.
BACKGROUND AND METHODS: This study examined (1) the psychologic functioning of children and adolescents before and after heart transplantation and (2) whether pretransplantation psychologic functioning, posttransplantation medical severity, and family functioning were related to the patients' posttransplantation psychologic functioning. The subjects were 23 patients, ages 3 to 20 years, who underwent heart transplant and survived at least 1 year after their transplantation. Psychologic functioning was assessed by the Children's Global Assessment Scale before and after heart transplantation. Medical severity was assessed by number of outpatient visits, hospitalizations, biopsies, and the Side Effect Severity Scale. Family functioning was rated on the Global Assessment of Family Relational Functioning Scale. RESULTS: The majority of the patients (78.3%) had good psychologic functioning after their heart transplantation. Patients with psychologic difficulties before and after transplantation had more hospitalizations after transplantation. CONCLUSIONS: Pretransplantation emotional functioning and family functioning were more correlated with posttransplantation psychologic functioning than medical side effect severity.
Adaptation, Psychological↗
Cyclocytidine in the treatment of refractory acute childhood leukemia: a Southwest Oncology Group Phase I-II study.
Thirty-seven children and adolescents with acute leukemia in relapse were treated with cyclocytidine in a cooperative group setting. Only one of the 27 evaluable patients achieved complete remission. A significant decrease (greater than or equal to 20%) in circulating and/or bone marrow leukemia cells occurred in an additional five patients. Drug toxicity was evaluated in 35 patients and included ten cases of jaw pain, two cases of hypotension, one case of fever, and one case of severe vomiting.
Adolescent↗