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Beta generalization of stancu-durrmeyer operators involving a generalization of boas-buck type polynomials
No full textEvaluation of Pain as a Fifth Vital Sign: Nurses' Opinions and Beliefs
No full textObjective: After the American Pain Society recognized pain as a fifth
vital sign, many countries adopted similar pain screening approaches.
The routine evaluation of pain has recently come to the agenda in
Turkey, along with the important role played by nurses in pain
evaluation, and hence, this study focuses on the opinions of nurses on
the evaluation of pain as a fifth vital sign, their pain beliefs, and
how their pain beliefs influence their opinions. Methods: This
descriptive study was conducted in a City Hospital with the involvement
of 223 nurses. A questionnaire and a Pain Beliefs Questionnaire were
used for the collection of data, and the data were analyzed using
descriptive statistics, and Mann-Whitney U-test, analysis of variance,
and Kruskal-Wallis tests. Results: Of the respondent nurses, 31.8\% of
the nurses were working in medical inpatient clinics, and 56.5\% stated
that pain should not be evaluated as a fifth vital sign, giving the
following reasons: if patients are in pain, they already report it
(40.5\%), and overwork and the lack of sufficient nurses (34.9\%). There
was no difference in the pain beliefs scores of the nurses who stated
that pain should not be evaluated as a fifth vital sign (56.5\%) and the
scores of those who stated the opposite (43.5\%) (P > 0.05).
Conclusions: Most of the nurses do not think that pain should be
evaluated as a fifth vital sign. Furthermore, the pain beliefs of nurses
do not influence their opinions regarding the assessment of pain as a
fifth vital sign
The prognostic value of textural features of primary tumour and systemic inflammation markers in NSCLC
No full textA Review of Control Methods on Suppression of 2ω Ripple for Single-Phase Quasi-Z-Source Inverter
No full textA unified approach: Split quaternions with quaternion coefficients and quaternions with dual coefficients
No full textEfficacy of manual lymph drainage plus exercise on range of motion and flexibility in refractory chronic cutaneous graft-versus-host disease: A case report
No full textGraft-versus-host disease (GvHD) is a common complication of allogeneic
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) with high morbidity
and mortality rates. The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the
efficacy of Manual Lymph Drainage (MLD) and a home-based exercise
programme on range of motion (ROM) and flexibility in a patient
diagnosed with chronic cutaneous GvHD. A 29-year-old male who was
diagnosed as acute lymphoblastic leukemia underwent allo-HSCT after
induction chemotherapy. He developed extended chronic cutaneous skin
GvHD. He received systemic immunosuppressive treatment and Psoralen and
ultraviolet radiation (PUVA) for 20 sessions. He was then consulted to
physiotherapy department for the limitation of multiple ROM due to
severe GvHD. The range of motions of shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and
ankle joints were evaluated with universal goniometer. The chair sit,
reach and back scratch tests were performed. MLD was applied for 2
weeks. Additionally, exercise recommendations were maintained as a
home-programme. After the therapy, ROM values were better in wrist
extension and hip abduction/adduction and the back scratch test result
improved. According to chair sit and reach tests, the results decreased
from 25 to 22 cm distance after 2 weeks. With MLD treatment with
exercise, ROM has been preserved and even improved in this refractory
case. In addition, the flexibility test results were found to be
increased. The efficacy of MLD and exercise in chronic cutaneous GvHD
should be investigated in further studies. (C) 2019 Elsevier Masson SAS.
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Evaluation of partner violence in female patients with fibromyalgia syndrome [Kadın Fibromyalji Hastalarında Eş Şiddetinin Değerlendirilmesi]
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