- Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Cancer survivorship and care
- BRCA gene mutations in cancer
- Patient Dignity and Privacy
- Family Support in Illness
- Empathy and Medical Education
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
- Global Cancer Incidence and Screening
- Family and Patient Care in Intensive Care Units
- Prostate Cancer Diagnosis and Treatment
- Interprofessional Education and Collaboration
- Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Breast Cancer Treatment Studies
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Poetry Analysis and Criticism
- Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
- LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy
- Renaissance Literature and Culture
- Complementary and Alternative Medicine Studies
- Wildlife Conservation and Criminology Analyses
- Historical Art and Culture Studies
- Health and Conflict Studies
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
2016-2025
Cornell University
2018-2023
National Cancer Institute
2021-2023
National Institutes of Health
2023
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
2021
Cambridge University Press
2021
New York University Press
2021
Monash University
2021
University of Newcastle Australia
2021
University of Toronto
1983-2021
Abstract In recent years, there has been increasing emphasis on understanding how the cancer experience affects individuals' quality of life (QOL). The goal this study was to assess QOL and identify psychosocial predictors among a large sample patients with variety cancers. Specifically, we assessed unique contribution demographic variables, medical social support patients' psychological adjustment. Three hundred fifty‐one participants completed measures support, depression, anxiety, at...
Journal Article Patricia Parker. Literary Fat Ladies: Rhetoric, Gender, Property. Get access By Parker.London and New York: Methuen, 1987. Pp. ix + 276. $47.50 cloth, $14.95 paper. Maureen Quilligan Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 3, Fall 1989, Pages 369–371, https://doi.org/10.2307/2870745 Published: 01 October 1989
Journal Article Patricia Parker and Geoffrey Hartman, eds. Shakespeare the Question of Theory.John Drakakis, ed. Alternative Shakespeares. Get access Theory. Edited by Hartman. New York: Methuen, 1985. Pp. xiii + 335. $27.00 cloth, $12.95 paper.Alternative John Drakakis. London: viii 260. $23.00 $9.95 paper. Peter Erickson Search for other works this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Quarterly, Volume 37, Issue 4, Winter 1986, Pages 516–520, https://doi.org/10.2307/2870689 Published:...
PURPOSE: The goal of this study was to assess patients’ preferences regarding the way in which physicians deliver news about their cancer diagnosis and management. PATIENTS AND METHODS: A sample 351 patients with a variety cancers completed measure assessing for how they would like be told cancer. Patients rated characteristics context content conversation as well physician characteristics. RESULTS: Factor analysis indicated that can grouped into following three categories: (1) (what much...
To examine the attitudes and practices of oncologists in disclosure unfavorable medical information to cancer patients.A questionnaire was administered a group physicians who attended 1999 Annual Meeting American Society Clinical Oncology. The assessed demographic practice-related frequency patient encounters which cancer-related disclosed. Participants were also asked about difficulties they had when approaching stressful discussions communication strategies used giving information.The...
Many nurses express difficulty in communicating with their patients, especially oncology settings where there are numerous challenges and high-stake decisions during the course of diagnosis treatment. Providing specific training communication skills is one way to enhance between patients. We developed implemented a program for nurses, consisting three teaching modules: responding empathically patients; discussing death, dying, end-of-life goals care; challenging interactions families....
Objectives To evaluate prospectively the associations between illness uncertainty, anxiety, fear of progression and general disease‐specific quality life (QoL) in men with favourable‐risk prostate cancer undergoing active surveillance ( AS ). Patients Methods After meeting stringent enrollment criteria for an cohort study at a single tertiary care centre, 180 completed questionnaires time every 6 months up to 30 months. Questionnaires assessed prostate‐specific QoL (using Expanded Prostate...
Most traditional cytotoxic anticancer agents ablate the rapidly dividing epithelium of hair follicle and induce alopecia (hair loss). Inhibition cyclin-dependent kinase 2 (CDK2), a positive regulator eukaryotic cell cycle progression, may represent therapeutic strategy for prevention chemotherapy-induced (CIA) by arresting reducing sensitivity to many cycle-active antitumor agents. Potent small-molecule inhibitors CDK2 were developed using structure-based methods. Topical application these...
The theoretical ferment which has affected literary studies over the last decade called into question traditional ways of thinking about, classifying and interpreting texts. Shakespeare been not just focus a variety divergent critical movements within recent years, but also increasingly locus emerging debates within, with, theory itself. This collection essays, written by distinguished powerful critics in fields studies, is intended both for those interested more generally contemporary...
Contributors: Lynda Boose, Laura Brown, Dympna Callaghan, Natalie Zemon Davis, Carla Freccero, Kim F. Hall, Jean E. Howard, Margaret W. Ferguson, Stephanie Jed, Ania Loomba, Felicity Nussbaum, Juliana Schiesari, Irene Silverblatt, Jyotsna Singh, Verene Stolcke
The editors of this book have brought together a collection first-rate essays that display the range and fecundity contemporary theory.--Ralph Flores, Philosophy Literature.
Journal Article Patricia Parker and David Quint, eds. Literary Theory/Renaissance Texts. Get access Edited by Quint. Baltimore London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1986. Pp. 399. $30.00 cloth, $12.95 paper. Miranda Johnson Haddad Search for other works this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Shakespeare Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 3, Autumn 1987, Pages 371–375, https://doi.org/10.2307/2870513 Published: 01 October 1987
An interactive digital education aid for breast reconstruction patients was developed because of a perceived need to provide with more regarding the treatment so that they can make better informed decisions. A prospective randomized study conducted assess its effectiveness.Breast cancer who were candidates recruited and into control group group. Both groups received routine assessment in plastic surgery clinic, but also watched aid. Questionnaires assessing knowledge, anxiety, satisfaction...
The primary aim of this study was to assess how patients would prefer be given their cancer diagnosis in a typical UK centre. Two hundred and forty-four attending the oncology outpatient department at Leicester Royal Infirmary, UK, were recruited. Patients invited complete Measure Patients' Preferences questionnaire, write comments on own experience breaking bad news consultation choose preferred role decision making. Over 90% questionnaires completed. rated items addressing message content...
Delivery of culturally competent care toward lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) patients depends on how health-care providers (HCPs) communicate with them; however, research about knowledge, attitude, behavior HCPs LGBT is scant. The objectives our study were to describe oncology HCPs' knowledge examine if beliefs LGB mediate the effects open communication behaviors patients, respectively. A total 1253 (187 physicians, 153 advance practice professionals (APPs), 828 nurses, 41...