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TL;DR: Most patients with advanced cancer, oncologists, and oncology nurses value spiritual care, and themes described provide an empirical basis for engaging spiritual issues within clinical care.
Abstract: Purpose Attention to patients’ religious and spiritual needs is included in national guidelines for quality end-of-life care, but little data exist to guide spiritual care. Patients and Methods The Religion and Spirituality in Cancer Care Study is a multi-institution, quantitative-qualitative study of 75 patients with advanced cancer and 339 cancer physicians and nurses. Patients underwent semistructured interviews, and care providers completed a Web-based survey exploring their perspectives on the routine provision of spiritual care by physicians and nurses. Theme extraction was performed following triangulated procedures of interdisciplinary analysis. Multivariable ordinal logistic regression models assessed relationships between participants’ characteristics and attitudes toward spiritual care. Results The majority of patients (77.9%), physicians (71.6%), and nurses (85.1%) believed that routine spiritual care would have a positive impact on patients. Only 25% of patients had previously received spiritual care. Among patients, prior spiritual care (adjusted odds ratio [AOR], 14.65; 95% CI, 1.51 to 142.23), increasing education (AOR, 1.26; 95% CI, 1.06 to 1.49), and religious coping (AOR, 4.79; 95% CI, 1.40 to 16.42) were associated with favorable perceptions of spiritual care. Physicians held more negative perceptions of spiritual care than patients (P .001) and nurses (P .008). Qualitative analysis identified benefits of spiritual care, including supporting patients’ emotional well-being and strengthening patient-provider relationships. Objections to spiritual care frequently related to professional role conflicts. Participants described ideal spiritual care to be individualized, voluntary, inclusive of chaplains/clergy, and based on assessing and supporting patient spirituality. Conclusion Most patients with advanced cancer, oncologists, and oncology nurses value spiritual care. Themes described provide an empirical basis for engaging spiritual issues within clinical care. J Clin Oncol 30:2538-2544. © 2012 by American Society of Clinical Oncology
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TL;DR: The results suggest that deficits in parental and classmate support may play a greater role in contributing to adolescent depression as compared to deficits in peer support.
Abstract: The goal of the current study is to examine the relationship amongst social support, stress, and depressive symptoms within a transactional and diathesis-stress framework using a multi-wave, longitudinal design. At the initial assessment, adolescents (n = 258) completed self-report measures assessing social support (peer, classmate, parent, and total), dependent interpersonal stress, anxious symptoms, and depressive symptoms. Additionally, participants reported stress and symptomology in each of the four waves spanning six months. Results of time-lagged, idiographic, multilevel modeling indicated that stress mediated the relationship between lower parental, classmate, and total social support and subsequent depressive, but not anxious, symptoms. In contrast, lower levels of peer support were not associated with higher levels of stress and subsequent depressive symptoms. Additionally, only classmate support deficits significantly moderated the relationship between stress and depressive symptoms. Overall, the results suggest that deficits in parental and classmate support may play a greater role in contributing to adolescent depression as compared to deficits in peer support.
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TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that there is a class of compromise estimators, Bayesian in nature, which will usually be preferred to either alternative, i.e., the James-Stein estimator or the Bayesian estimator.
Abstract: SUMMARY We have two sets of parameters we wish to estimate, and wonder whether the James-Stein estimator should be applied separately to the two sets or once to the combined problem. We show that there is a class of compromise estimators, Bayesian in nature, which will usually be preferred to either alternative. "The difficulty here is to know what problems are to be combined togetherwhy should not all our estimation problems be lumped together into one grand melee ?" GEORGE BARNARD commenting on the James-Stein estimator, 1962.
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TL;DR: The sum of MMHg and Hg(II) obtained by this method equals the THg value obtained by digestion with HNO3 and H2SO4, reduction with SnCl2, and single-stage amalgamation/CVAFS for all biological materials studied.
Abstract: We developed a method for the simultaneous determination of monomethyl mercury (MMHg), inorganic mercury [Hg(II)], and total mercury (THg) in biological materials. A variety of biological materials can be digested in methanolic KOH solution. The MMHg and Hg(II) present are converted to volatile ethyl derivatives, methylethyl mercury and diethyl mercury, by an aqueous-phase ethylation reaction with sodium tetraethylborate. The ethyl derivatives are precollected onto a trapping column at room temperature, in case of disconnection with the separation/detection system, and then thermally desorbed into a packed isothermal gas chromatography (GC) column. Eluted organo-Hg compounds from the GC column are decomposed into Hg0, and detection is completed by cold vapor atomic fluorescence spectrometry (CVAFS). Pure standard solutions can be used for calibration. The sum of MMHg and Hg(II) obtained by this method equals the THg value obtained by digestion with HNO3 and H2SO4, reduction with SnCl2, and single-stage amalgamation/CVAFS for all biological materials studied. Absolute detection limits are 0.6 pg and 1.3 pg of Hg as MMHg and Hg(II), respectively, corresponding to 0.3 ng and 0.6 ng/g (wet) of sample.
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Darien Wood | 160 | 2174 | 136596 |
Herbert A. Simon | 157 | 745 | 194597 |
Ron D. Hays | 135 | 781 | 82285 |
Paul G. Shekelle | 132 | 601 | 101639 |
John E. Ware | 121 | 327 | 134031 |
Linda Darling-Hammond | 109 | 374 | 59518 |
Robert H. Brook | 105 | 571 | 43743 |
Clifford Y. Ko | 104 | 514 | 37029 |
Lotfi A. Zadeh | 104 | 331 | 148857 |
Claudio Ronco | 102 | 1312 | 72828 |
Joseph P. Newhouse | 101 | 484 | 47711 |
Kenneth B. Wells | 100 | 484 | 47479 |
Moyses Szklo | 99 | 428 | 47487 |
Alan M. Zaslavsky | 98 | 444 | 58335 |
Graham J. Hutchings | 97 | 995 | 44270 |