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Exploring the Usefulness of Two Conceptual Frameworks for Understanding How Organizational Factors Influence Innovation Implementation in Cancer Care
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Urquhart, Robin; Sargeant, Joan; Grunfeld, Eva – Journal of Continuing Education in the Health Professions, 2013
Moving knowledge into practice and the implementation of innovations in health care remain significant challenges. Few researchers adequately address the influence of organizations on the implementation of innovations in health care. The aims of this article are to (1) present 2 conceptual frameworks for understanding the organizational factors…
Descriptors: Health Services, Innovation, Surgery, Pathology
Consumer Health
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Bibel, Barbara – Library Journal, 2010
This article presents an annotated bibliography of 19 titles that focus on cancer and health-care reform. These include: (1) Anderson, John W. "Stand by Her: A Breast Cancer Guide for Men." AMACOM: American Management Assn.; (2) Carstensen, Laura L. "A Long Bright Future: An Action Plan for a Lifetime of Happiness, Health, and Financial Security."…
Descriptors: Caring, Altruism, Autism, Cancer
Multidimensional Collaboration: Reflections on Action Research in a Clinical Context
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Gregory, Sheila; Poland, Fiona; Spalding, Nicola J.; Sargen, Kevin; McCulloch, Jane; Vicary, Penny – Educational Action Research, 2011
This paper reflects on the challenges and benefits of multidimensional collaboration in an action research study to evaluate and improve preoperative education for patients awaiting colorectal surgery. Three cycles of planning, acting, observing and reflecting were designed to evaluate practice and implement change in this interactive setting,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Patient Education, Surgery
Narratives as Dialogic, Contested, and Aesthetic Performances
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Harter, Lynn M. – Journal of Applied Communication Research, 2009
Dr. Pete Anderson, a clinician and professor at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, entered the life of Anna and her family two years ago. Anna was referred to him because of his clinical research and expertise in pediatric oncology and multimodality therapies. Anna had been diagnosed with metastatic Ewing's Sarcoma, a form of bone…
Descriptors: Physician Patient Relationship, Interpersonal Communication, Perspective Taking, Quality of Life
Models of Understanding: Historical Constructions of Breast Cancer in Medicine and Public Health
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Petersen, Jennifer – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2004
The era of technical and scientific progress ushered in with the twentieth century brought new medical knowledge such as the Halstead 'radical' mastectomy, which promised a cure for breast cancer. These advances in medical knowledge were premised on an epidemiological model of disease, which shaped the treatment and public understanding of breast…
Descriptors: Females, Public Health, Preventive Medicine, Cancer
Art Therapy with Laryngectomy Patients.
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Anand, Susan Ainlay; Anand, Vinod K. – Art Therapy: Journal of the American Art Therapy Association, 1997
Reports on the experiences of patients with laryngeal cancer who used art therapy. Drawing on 14 years of experience and 109 laryngeal cancer patients, describes treatment results and the case material substantiating the distinct role of art therapy. Provides an overview of the special medical and therapeutic needs of this group. (RJM)
Descriptors: Art Therapy, Cancer, Case Studies, Communication (Thought Transfer)
Postgraduate Training in Clinical Oncology. Report on a WHO Working Group (The Hague, The Netherlands, December 6-8, 1978).
World Health Organization, Copenhagen (Denmark). Regional Office for Europe. – 1981
The 1978 report of the Working Group of Postgraduate Training in Clinical Oncology, convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for Europe in collaboration with the government of The Netherlands, is presented. The groups analyzed models of postgraduate training in clinical oncology and evaluated their suitability in relation to…
Descriptors: Cancer, Delivery Systems, Foreign Countries, Higher Education