BACKGROUND Supportive supervision has been found to be more effective than corrective fault-oriented inspections. Uganda's Ministry of Health in 2012 implemented a comprehensive strategy (SPARS) to build medicines management capacity in public sector health facilities. The approach includes supportive supervision. This structured observational study assesses supportive supervision competency am...

M a i n r e s u l t s Plasma exchange: At 4 weeks, more patients who received plasma exchange than supportive care improved by ≥ 1 disability grade (Table). Mean improvement in disability grade was greater in the plasma exchange group than in the supportive care group (4 RCTs, n = 585) (weighted mean difference [WMD] −0.89, 95% CI −1.14 to −0.63). The number of patients still on a ventilator 4 ...

abstract background: natural delivery is distressing and the mother’s severe pain and anxiety in this condition can have negative impacts on the fetus, mother, and the delivery process. yet, pain and anxiety can be reduced by supporting the mother by a doula. thus, the present study aims to compare the effects of doula supportive care and acupressure at the bl32 point on the mother’s anxiety le...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To investigate the effect of supportive care on healthcare and support needs for women with suspected breast cancer during the diagnostic period. DESIGN A quasiexperimental design with two nonrandomly assigned groups. SETTING Two general surgery outpatient departments at a large teaching hospital in Taiwan. SAMPLE Experimental and control groups included 62 and 60 women...

Does the perception of many close relationships as autonomy-supportive make students more motivated and competent? The goal of this study was to use latent class analysis (LCA) to compare the educational correlates of having one vs. several autonomy-supportive relationships. Participants were 1406 high school students (47% boys, 52% girls). LCA revealed three groups: Group 1 (17%) included stud...

BACKGROUND It is well known that molecular-targeted drugs, of which sorafenib (Nexavar®) is one, differ from previous anticancer drugs and cause various unusual adverse drug reactions. Treatment with sorafenib causes adverse drug reactions such as hand-foot skin reactions, hypertension, and diarrhea. Physicians spend a lot of time monitoring adverse drug reactions to sorafenib in outpatients. A...