With an average life expectancy of 15.3 years for a 70-year-old woman in the United Kingdom (Government Actuary's Department, 2006), the potential to gain a significant number of life years amply justifies research aimed at better targeting of chemotherapy treatment. Despite this, clinical trial...
The sixth page describes a case scenario highlighting one woman's success at weaning herself off benzodiazepines. The last page outlines a simple 21-week tapering program. The reader is encouraged on four occasions and is warned in large, red lettering to “Please Consult your Doctor or ...
The nurse notes that the left arm of an older woman is larger than the right. Which question is best for the nurse to ask to determine the suspected cause of this finding?"Do you suffer from congestive heart failure?""Have you been diagnosed with an abdominal aneurysm?""Do you have prob...
And unlike mortality reduction, which may take years to benefit a woman with newly diagnosed breast cancer, the benefit of less surgery is immediate.Drs. Elmore and Ngo-Metzger presented modeling based on the performance of screening in younger women. But screening performs better in older women....
On the other hand, an 85-year-old woman with no major comorbid conditions and excellent functional status has a high probability of surviving 4 years and would be a good candidate for screening despite her advanced age. In addition, our index may be useful in identifying patients with whom ...
“…this woman – in her wonderful British accent – burst into tears and told me: ‘The Queen of England could not have gotten care this amazing – thank you!’” “I was the last member of the MDT to meet with the patient and daughter-in-law, and this woman – in her...
If cytology were intro- duced as a triage test for early identification of cervical cancer in women with symptoms, it would seem rational to ignore all results reported as less than high grade, unless the woman was (over)due for screening. Women with a negative, bo...
“Among pregnant people 35-39 years of age, X number of babies out of every 1,000 births are stillborn.” For example, one study found the absolute risk of having a stillbirth at ages 35-39 was 0.22%, meaning then that 2.2 pregnant people out of 1,000 in this age group experienced ...
over, so yeah, no it’s going well, yeah. They’re quite proactive, there’s two of them that are working quite closely together and then they have the treasurer of the WI, so all of the … she comes along, she’s a hoot this woman, she’s just nuts, she’s brilliant, love ...
However, most of the woman alcohol users would have been occasional users, hence it is difficult to ascertain whether this was a real effect of occasional alcohol use or was because of residual confounding from other characteristics of the fairly uncommon woman drinkers (such as more health ...