• Patients’ bowel symptom experiences and self-care strategies following sphincter-saving surgery for rectal cancer 

  Landers, Margaret; McCarthy, Geraldine; Livingstone, Vicki; Savage, Eileen (John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014-07-12)

  Aims and objectives: To investigate patients’ bowel symptom experiences and self-care strategies following sphincter-saving surgery for rectal cancer and the relationship between bowel symptom experiences and the self-care ...
• A theoretical framework to guide a study exploring cancer related fatigue 

  Landers, Margaret; O'Regan, Patricia; Hegarty, Josephine (Elsevier, 2017-07-21)

  This paper explicates how Orem's Self-care Deficit Theory of Nursing (Orem, 1995) was selected to guide a study to explore and measure cancer related fatigue (CRF), and determine the most effective self-care strategies ...
• Advance care planning within survivorship care plans for older cancer survivors: a systematic review 

  O'Caoimh, Rónán; Cornally, Nicola; O'Sullivan, Ronan; Hally, Ruth; Weathers, Elizabeth; Lavan, Amanda H.; Kearns, Tara; Coffey, Alice; McGlade, Ciara; Molloy, D. William (Elsevier, 2017-06-23)

  Advances in the medical treatment of cancer have increased the number of survivors, particularly among older adults, who now represent the majority of these. Survivorship care plans (SCPs) are documents that cancer patients ...
• Worldwide prevalence of tocophobia in pregnant women: systematic review and meta-analysis 

  O'Connell, Maeve A.; Leahy-Warren, Patricia; Khashan, Ali S.; Kenny, Louise C.; O'Neill, Sinéad M. (Wiley, 2017-03-30)

  Introduction: Tocophobia is defined as a severe fear of pregnancy and childbirth. There is increasing evidence that tocophobia may have short-term and long-term adverse effects on mother and baby. We performed a systematic ...
• Thyroid hormone therapy for older adults with subclinical hypothyroidism 

  Stott, David J.; Rodondi, Nicolas; Kearney, Patricia M.; Ford, Ian; Westendorp, Rudi G. J.; Mooijaart, Simon P.; Sattar, Naveed; Aubert, Carole E.; Aujesky, Drahomir; Bauer, Douglas C.; Baumgartner, Christine; Blum, Manuel R.; Browne, John P.; Byrne, Stephen; Collet, Tinh-Hai; Dekkers, Olaf M.; den Elzen, Wendy P. J.; Du Puy, Robert S.; Ellis, Graham; Feller, Martin; Floriani, Carmen; Hendry, Kirsty; Hurley, Caroline; Jukema, J. Wouter; Kean, Sharon; Kelly, Maria; Krebs, Danielle; Langhorne, Peter; McCarthy, Gemma; McCarthy, Vera J. C.; McConnachie, Alex; McDade, Mairi; Messow, Martina; O'Flynn, Anne Marie; O'Riordan, David; Poortvliet, Rosalinde K.E.; Quinn, Terence J; Russell, Audrey; Sinnott, Carol; Smit, Jan W.A.; Van Dorland, H. Anette; Walsh, Kieran A.; Walsh, Elaine K.; Watt, Torquil; Wilson, Robbie; Gussekloo, Jacobijn (Massachusetts Medical Society, 2017-04-03)

  BACKGROUND: The use of levothyroxine to treat subclinical hypothyroidism is controversial. We aimed to determine whether levothyroxine provided clinical benefits in older persons with this condition. Full Text of Background... ...

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