Screening for symptoms of depression associated with heart disease
Heart disease increases the risk of depression. How can we best identify depressed cardiac patients?
Heart disease increases the risk of depression. How can we best identify depressed cardiac patients?
They wanted clear guidelines and procedures and felt forced to digitise their work.
The current practice of using oxygen therapy has proven to be incomplete.
A successful kidney-pancreas transplantation improves and stabilises patients’ daily lives. It also brings with it new elements of uncertainty that are important to convey to the patient.
When staff in the child health clinic and school health services tell parents that their child is overweight, many feel both a sense of shame and guilt.
A care discourse, aimed at the patient’s needs, was prominent in the evaluation and assessment notes. The treatment plans reflected a problem-focused discourse, where only problems were recorded.
Involving a user and a professional translator may be appropriate when an instrument is translated and adapted to another culture.
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The students gain an increased understanding of cultural differences by maintaining an open attitude and receiving explanations of cultural differences that they do not understand.