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‘I am actually doing something to keep well. That feels really good’: Experiences of exercise within hospice care

Background: Patients with advanced cancer frequently experience functional impairment and reduced quality of life. Therapeutic exercise can provide benefit and be made accessible through the use of tailored programmes. Most studies examining exercise programmes for people with advanced cancer have used quantitative outcome measures and focussed on objective physical function, therefore offer a ...

What Really is Deep Learning Doing?

Deep learning has achieved a great success in many areas, from computer vision to natural language processing, to game playing, and much more. Yet, what deep learning is really doing is still an open question. There are a lot of works in this direction. For example, [6] tried to explain deep learning by group renormalization, and [5] tried to explain deep learning from the view of functional ap...

Emotional Intelligence: Can Companies Really Feel Their Way to Success?

Do patients feel comfortable asking healthcare workers to wash their hands?

Author(s): Andrew Ottum, MPH; Ajay K. Sethi, PhD, MHS; Elizabeth A. Jacobs, MD, MPP; Sara Zerbel, MS; Martha E. Gaines, JD, LLM; Nasia Safdar, MD, PhD Source: Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, Vol. 33, No. 12 (December 2012), pp. 1282-1284 Published by: The University of Chicago Press on behalf of The Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/sta...

Transcatheter ventricular septal defect closure: Should we feel comfortable after many years?

Ventricular septal defect (VSD) is the most common congenital heart defect. Indicated closure is performed either by surgery or by using a transcatheter route in eligible patients (1). Although closure rates are similar in the transcatheter and surgical VSD closure, both the transcatheter closure of a VSD and surgery are not a complication-free procedure (2, 3). The occurrence of a complete atr...