American population ages, the number of older adults diagnosed or living with cancer will
continue to increase. Cancer fatigue has been defined as ''a persistent, subjective sense of …

Family satisfaction with care in the intensive care unit: Re... : Critical Care Medicine Family
satisfaction with care in the intensive care unit: Results of a multiple center study* : Critical Care …

Objective. To describe the substitute decision-makers' perspectives related to decision-
making in the intensive care unit (ICU) and to determine those variables associated with …

Purpose: To develop and test the feasibility of administering a questionnaire to measure
family members' level of satisfaction with care provided to them and their critically ill relative …

The objectives of this study were twofold:(1) to explore and compare the symptom
experience of seriously ill hospitalized cancer and noncancer patients near the end of life …

Aims To inform a discussion for the applicability of using the Nursing Role Effectiveness
Model (NREM) in the primary health care setting through a synthesis of the literature that has …

This study described and compared the sleep experience of medical and surgical patients
during a hospital stay. During 3 consecutive nights, patients (n= 110) self-reported sleep …

To receive CE credit for this article, visit the American Association of Critical-Care
Nurses'(AACN) Web site at http://www. aacn. org, click on “Education” and select …

Although preliminary evidence shows that people generally prefer to die at home, very little
is known about where Canadians die. Understanding the epidemiology of dying in Canada …

BACKGROUND: The epidemiology of chronic pain is poorly understood due to a paucity of
longitudinal studies limiting the ability to develop prevention strategies for a condition …