Being prepared

Being prepared for donation after cardiac death.

Depending on your perspective, donation after cardiac death (DCD) is a welcome boost for organ donation or an ethical quagmire. In July 2007, DCD was shoved into the spotlight when a transplant surgeon in California was charged with 3 felony counts related to a patient who was expected to undergo DCD. Although no organs were donated, the surgeon allegedly violated the law and failed to follow t...

Alberta's new health research paradigms: Are graduate students being prepared for interdisciplinary team research?

Strategic prioritization of research agendas to address health problems with a large social and economic burden has increased the demand for interdisciplinary research. Universities have addressed the need for interdisciplinary research in their strategic documents. However, research training to equip graduates for careers in interdisciplinary research teams has not kept pace. We offer recommen...

Being prepared to protect the public health. Information for thinking the unthinkable and doing the essential.

Being prepared: essential to self-care and quality of life for the person with cancer.

Being adequately prepared for an experience such as cancer empowers patients, lowers distress, improves coping, supports self-management, promotes recovery, and improves quality of life. However, patients with cancer report unmet informational and support needs across the cancer trajectory. The purpose of this article is to describe the relationship of information preparation and patient outcom...

Prepared for California Air Resources Board Prepared

A condensed version of the SAPRC-07 mechanism (Carter, 2008) was implemented in a 3-D air quality model and applied to the Los Angeles area as part of the present review. The CIT airshed model was used; see Martien et al. (2003 and 2006) for description of model input data. The summer 1997 emission inventory was used here. Martien et al. used an extended version of SAPRC-99 that had many indivi...