… From the Departments of Medicine (DKH) and Nursing (JET), Kingston General Hospital,
Kingston, Ontario, Canada; the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology, Queen’s …

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 their …

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 using the …

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 “Continuing …

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 …

The objective of this study was to conduct an assessment of supportive care needs from the
perspective of parents of children diagnosed with cancer within an urban-rural region in …

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 …

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 …