Routinely assessing patients' sleep health is time well spent

Is time on first-case starts well spent?

Is frozen section routinely necessary in patients with well- localized solitary parathyroid adenoma?

Introduction Today, the treatment of primary hyperparathyroidism (pHPT) is mainly surgical and pHPT is the result of a single adenoma in 85% of patients (1-6). Historically, until the 1990s, for localization of all four parathyroid glands, bilateral cervical exploration had been the standard surgical treatment for pHPT. In the past two decades however, significant improvements in localization t...

Introduction the Importance of Sleep to a Sense of Well-being Is Evident to Anyone Who Has Spent a Sleepless

THE IMPORTANCE OF SLEEP TO A SENSE OF WELL-BEING IS EVIDENT TO ANYONE WHO HAS SPENT A SLEEPLESS NIGHT. However, the amount of sleep necessary for good health is unclear. Most sleep professionals, as well as the National Sleep Foundation, recommend that adults obtain 8 hours of sleep per night.1 However, with the increasing demands placed on individuals in Western society, the time adults in the...

Effect of Hope Therapy on Sleep Quality, Subjective Well-being and Health Hardiness among Cancer Patients with Breast Evacuation

Introduction: Today breast cancer is as a one of the most important diseases, the most common cancer and the second cause of death among women, and breast evacuation is a one of the its primary treatment methods. As a result, present research aimed to determine the effect of hope therapy on sleep quality, subjective well-being and health hardiness among cancer patients with breast evacuation. M...

Time well spent? Relating television use to children's free-time activities.

OBJECTIVES This study assessed the claim that children's television use interferes with time spent in more developmentally appropriate activities. METHODS Data came from the first wave of the Child Development Supplement, a nationally representative sample of children aged 0 to 12 in 1997 (N = 1712). Twenty-four-hour time-use diaries from 1 randomly chosen weekday and 1 randomly chosen weeken...