Thinking Outside the Visit: Primary Care Patient Perspectives on Helpful Advance Care Planning Methods

Advance care planning in primary care.

Advance care planning and the older patient.

Making treatment decisions for older people is difficult, because of the complex interplay of their multiple co-morbidities, but also because of the fine balance of risks vs. benefit in any chosen management plan. This becomes even more difficult when they lose the capacity to tell us what they want, and often in such situations we have to rely on information from others in order to make decisi...

Barriers to advance care planning in primary care.

to assess whether introducing beta-blockade immediately prior to surgery and continuing it for 30 days reduced the risk of cardiac events in patients at risk of, or with, coronary artery disease, vascular disease, previous stroke, etc. In POISE, about 60% of patients had a history of hypertension, but there are no data on the quality of blood pressure control or the presence or absence of eleva...

Point-of-Care Ultrasonography in Orthopedics: A Helpful Tool to Improve Patient Care

An enormous technological improvement in Ultrasonography devices has occurred during last decade, providing excellent soft-tissue contrast and high spatial resolution images. Nowadays, musculoskeletal ultrasonography is going to be a stethoscope in the hand of orthopedic surgeons for the diagnosis of many musculoskeletal pathologies, as well as an accurate guide for therapeutic interventions. T...

Survivors of breast cancer: patient perspectives on survivorship care planning.

INTRODUCTION Survivors of breast cancer (SBC) constitute the largest population of cancer survivors. Needs for survivorship care may vary according to life stage and urban/rural place of residence. This study was conducted to better understand patient preferences for survivorship care plans (SCP). METHODS Patients were identified through cancer agency electronic records and invited to partici...