This study validated the Home Hospice Nursing Care Scale, a new assessment tool for home-based nursing care for cancer patients at the end of life.

The BODE index uses the modified Medical Research Council (mMRC) dyspnea scale to grade the severity of breathing problems. For example, grade 0 indicates that you only get breathless during ...

Results: The new evidence strengthens the previous recommendations supporting the benefits of lower and upper extremity exercise training and improvements in dyspnea and health-related quality-of ...

When assessing pain, especially for people who struggle to verbalise, using tools such as Abbey et al’s (2004) Abbey Pain Scale or Warden et al’s (2003) Pain Assessment in Advanced Dementia scale help ...

Any good home printer can be expected to prints clear text and images, but some of the best home printers also do other things, like let you print directly from your phone and scan images.

Prof McDermott studied for his medical degree at the University in Leeds graduating in 1994. He then continued is general medical and specialist neurology training in Leeds before taking up a clinical ...

The world is ageing quickly. People older than 64 years already outnumber children younger than five, and this asymmetry will continue to widen. As life expectancy increases and fertility rates ...

Dyspnea Exertion Scale(DES) score for the degree of dyspnoea≥grade 2; (3) Met the diagnostic criteria for respiratory failure (oxygenation index: arterial oxygen pressure/fractional inspired oxygen < ...

dInstitute of Respiratory Medicine, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, PR China eDepartment of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Center of Respiratory Medicine, China-Japan Friendship ...

In the third step, the statements were discussed with all participants and merged. The final statements were then voted by each participant on a scale of agreement ranging from 0% to 100%. The ...