Are nurses and physicians able to assess which strategies adolescents recently diagnosed with cancer use to cope with disease- and treatment-related distress?
Health-care staff's possibilities to assess how patients cope with disease- and treatment-related distress should be increased. A number of changes in education and the organization of clinical care, especially with regard to assessing patients' needs, are suggested.
In this single emergency medical services agency study, neither PEA electrical rate nor QRS width correlated with survival or neurologic outcome.