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CureusMalnutrition is a common and serious complication among cancer patients that negatively affects treatment response, quality of life, and overall survival. Tools such as the Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA©) and phase angle (PA), which is derived from bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), have shown promise in identifying ...
Ribeiro, Marco Aurélio +3 more
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PLoS ONEBackgroundCancer, particularly tumors of the digestive system, presents a major global health challenge. The incidence and mortality rates of these cancers are increasing, and many patients face significant nutritional risks, which are often overlooked ...
Menghao Yang +5 more
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Services for reducing duration of hospital care for acute stroke patients [PDF]
, 2012 <p>Background: Stroke patients conventionally receive a substantial part of their rehabilitation in hospital. Services have now been developed which offer patients in hospital an early discharge with rehabilitation at home (early supported ...
Anderson +63 more
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Cross Cultural Adaptation and Validation of the "Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA)" for Nutritional Status Assessment of Cancer Patients [PDF]
Taṣvīr-i salāmat, 2018 Background and Objectives: Because of the nature of the disease, many patients with cancer are at higher risk of malnutrition. This may result in a remarkable reduction in the quality of life and poor prognosis.
Jalil Shahabbasi +6 more
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Towards Personalized Synthesized Voices for Individuals with Vocal Disabilities: Voice Banking and Reconstruction [PDF]
, 2013 When individuals lose the ability to produce their own speech, due to degenerative diseases such as motor neurone disease (MND) or Parkinson’s, they lose not only a functional means of communication but also a display of their individual and group ...
King, Simon +2 more
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A second-person model to anomalous social cognition [PDF]
, 2018 Reports of patients with schizophrenia show a fragmented and anomalous subjective experience. This pathological subjective experience, we suggest, can be related to the fact that disembodiment inhibits the possibility of intersubjective experience, and ...
Hipólito, Inês, Martins, Jorge
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Successful early elemental diet nutritional support in an esophageal cancer patient
Journal of Cancer Research and Practice, 2017 Our case involved a 58-year-old man with a medical history of moderately differentiated esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. Positron emission tomography (PET) and computed tomography (CT) scan revealed a tumor in the upper two-thirds of the esophagus ...
Pei-Chun Chao, Cheau-Feng Lin
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IP Journal of Nutrition, Metabolism and Health Science: The consequences of malnutrition in Cancer patient, include an increased risk of complications, a lower quality of life, reduced survival and higher health-care costs. The Scored Patient-Generated Subjective Global Assessment (PG-SGA) is used internationally as the reference method for screening, monitoring and triaging for interventions in patients ...
Shikha Singh +2 more
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Measuring Subjective Wellbeing in Developing Countries. [PDF]
, 2004 The paper explores the conceptual and methodological issues entailed in using subjective measures of well-being in developing countries. In the first part I define, situate and contrast subjective quality of life (QoL), subjective well-being (SWB), and ...
Camfield, Laura
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Adherence to adjuvant therapy in post-menopausal breast cancer patients: A review [PDF]
, 2011 This is the post-print version of the Article. The official published version can be accessed from the link below - Copyright @ 2012 John Wiley & Sons, IncThis review aimed to address the concept of adherence to adjuvant therapy in post-menopausal women.
Banning, M
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