UNLABELLED PRPOSE/OBJECTIVES: to describe the natural pace and pattern of activity resumption in the first six months after stem cell transplantation (SCT). DESIGN longitudinal, descriptive survey. SETTING bone marrow transplantation program of a National Cancer Institute-designated comprehensive cancer center in the northeastern United States. SAMPLE 18 men and 18 women who underwent eit...

PURPOSE The growing concern about the low job satisfaction among nurses and the achievement of positive patient outcomes are critical healthcare issues. The purpose of this descriptive correlational study was to determine the relationship between nurses' job satisfaction and patient fall rate on adult medical and surgical units. METHODS Secondary data from a nurses' job satisfaction survey at...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe changes in body image among men with prostate cancer who were either prescribed androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) or were ADT naive and to explore the relationship of age, duration of therapy, and body mass index with body image perception. DESIGN Exploratory and descriptive. SETTING Ambulatory care clinic of a large urban Veterans Affairs medical center. S...

BACKGROUND Critical illness can be a psychological stressor for patients and family members. Scandinavian studies have portrayed patient diaries as a supporting catalyst for patients and their families through a process of reflection and fact presentation. However, the small number of randomisation trials exhibits theoretical and methodological limitations. Given the increased interest amongst ...

This paper presents exploratory subgroup analytics on ubiquitous data: We propose subgroup discovery and assessment approaches for obtaining interesting descriptive patterns and provide a novel graphbased analysis approach for assessing the relations between the obtained subgroup set. This exploratory visualization approaches allows for the comparison of subgroups according to their relations t...