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Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) and Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, 2005.
This paper is a research proposal to study the relationship of Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease (GERD) to Esophageal Adenocarcinoma, secondary to Barrett's Syndrome.
5,170 words (approx. 20.7 pages), 27 sources, APA, £ 90.95
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This paper explains that gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) is a common condition, which may result in esophagitis caused by the esophagus repeatedly being exposed to acid from the stomach. The author points out that the preliminary literature review provides ample evidence that a relationship exists between the progression of Barrett's Esophagus to Adenocarcinoma and a patient history of GERD; however, the exact parameters of this relationship have not yet been fully recognized and there is still much debate with regard to whether or not GERD should be defined as a true risk factor for progression to advanced adenocarcinoma. The paper relates that the population sample will be male patients, age 50 years, with a positive diagnosis of cancer; the GSRS questionnaire will be the survey instrument to assess the extent to which patients recall experiencing GERD symptoms prior to the onset of their disease and the extent to which each patient sought out care for symptoms of GERD prior to their diagnosis of adenocarcinoma.
Table of Contents
Introduction
Background/Significance of Study
Conceptual Framework
Literature Review
Background of GERD/Barrett's Esophagus
Correlation of GERD to Barrett's and Adenocarcinoma in Patients
Risk Factors for Barrett's Progression to Esophageal Adenocarcinoma
Control of GERD and Adenocarcinoma
Summary of Literature Available
Methods
Sample/Settings
Instrument
Data Collection Procedure
Limitations
Population Sample
Data Analysis
Appendix A - Consent Form
Appendix B - Demographic Data Sheet
Appendix C - Questionnaire
From the Paper
"The questionnaire is noted for offering a comprehensive evaluation of patient symptoms related to GERD. The reliability and validity of the Gastrointestinal Symptom Rating Scale has been evaluated in patients with GERD; study results reveal that the GSRS is a useful patient-rated symptom scale for evaluating patients and outcomes for treatment with GERD; the scale is shown to have good reliability and construct validity, and the GSRS scales are capable of discriminating GERD symptom severity accurately. The scale is interview based and consists of 15 items that assess gastrointestinal symptoms. The GSRS have a seven graded Likert Type scale that can be used for analysis, where 1 is equivalent to lack of symptoms and 7 is indicative of severe symptoms."
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COPD, GERD and Pneumonia: A Case Study, 2007.
This paper presents the case study of a patient diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), pneumonia, gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD) and migraine headaches.
2,019 words (approx. 8.1 pages), 10 sources, MLA, £ 44.95
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The paper describes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), a progressive respiratory disease affecting between 14 - 20 million people. The paper presents the case of Mr. Jones, a 62 year old married male with COPD, pneumonia, GERD and migraine headaches. The paper conducts an examination of prior providers' treatment plans and offers recommendations for change.
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Case Study
New Treatment Recommendations
Appropriate Laboratory Monitoring
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"According to Dewan (2002), over 16 million office visits are placed to clinics or doctors, 500,000 hospitalizations and 110,000 deaths can be directly attributed annually to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. Tiep (1997) reports that between 14 - 20 million individuals suffer from COPD and the number of new diagnoses is rising at alarming rates with an associated annual cost upwards of $40 billion. COPD is regarded as the fourth leading cause of death in the United States (Simmons & Simmons, 2004; Tiep, 1997)."
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Gerd Brantenberg's "Egalia's Daughters", 2006.
An analysis of Gerd Brantenberg's book, "Egalia's Daughters".
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 2 sources, £ 18.95
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The story of "Egalia's Daughters" by Gerd Brantenberg depicts a society that is significantly different than traditional social orders throughout the world. Whereas men have historically been the leaders of society by creating laws, running governments and controlling their homes, Brantenberg reverses the situation, placing women as the leaders throughout every facet of the social order. Additionally, as societies within the world have evolved, laws and policies have historically been created to protect the rights and needs of the male population to a greater extent than the female population." This paper examines the statement about gender divisions Brantenberg makes in this work.
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The story of Egalia's Daughters by Brantenberg depicts a society that is significantly different than traditional social orders throughout the world. Whereas men have historically been the leaders of society by creating laws, running governments and controlling their homes, Brantenberg reverses the situation, placing women as the leaders throughout every facet of the social order. Additionally, as societies within the world have evolved, laws and policies have historically been created to protect the rights and needs of the male population to a greater extent than the female population. Because men have been the creators of such laws this has been the "natural" inclination of judicial systems throughout the world.
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Gerd Brantenberg's "Egalia's Daughters", 2006.
An analysis of the theme about gender roles and gender differences in the novel, "Egalia's Daughters", by Gerd Brantenberg.
900 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 1 source, £ 24.95
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This paper discusses the novel the novel, "Egalia's Daughters", by Gerd Brantenberg and how the author creates a version of society known as Egalia in which gender roles are different than the norm, reflecting ideas of gender from more modern times. In this society men must wear clothing that is uncomfortable and restricting much the way women in our society have done for a long time. The men are also required to be housebound, meaning they stay home and take care of the home much the way women were long expected to do in Western society. The paper explains that the novel satirizes current gender differences by switching many of them, showing men as if they were viewed as women, and women as if they were viewed as men. The story is told using the experience of the child Petronius as the individual who is coming of age and learning about gender and society.
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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia, 2002.
This paper discusses Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) and a prevention program developed in the author?s hospital.
2,370 words (approx. 9.5 pages), 18 sources, MLA, £ 50.95
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This paper explains that increased rates of VAP in the author?s hospital, which were above the national average, triggered the experimentation of new techniques to reduce the incidence of VAP. The author describes the experimental method, with pre and post tests using four randomly selected groups: Group 1 was treated with a new oral care procedure, including an oral rinse with chlorhexidine; Group 2 was treated by being placed into a semi-recumbent position, which reduces gastroesophageal reflux and subsequent aspiration; Group 3 was treated with a combination of both treatments; and Group 4, the control, was treated by the current method. The paper relates that the best results were obtained for Group 3, where both variables were tested simultaneously and which yielded considerably lower rates than each of the measures when tested individually, resulting in a new treatment program that has proven to be successful. Chart.
Table of Contents
Introduction and Background Information
Process of Care
Assessment of the Patient
Helping the Patient Cope
Doctor Assessment
Analysis of Process of Care
Identification of All Primary Causative Factors
Experimental Method: Multiple Group Pretest-Posttest with Control Group
Results
Implementation of Program
Conclusion
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"In SunHealth Hospital we have an ICU equipped with 12-bed surgical and an 8-bed medical intensive care unit. We understand that we must implement a program to reduce the risk of this type of nosocomial infection. We have looked at the strategies used by other hospitals including Owensboro Medical Health System Care Intensive Unit, which is a hospital of similar size and patient mix in terms of age distribution and community background. We decided to implement a program that resembles some of the preventive measures used by them in order to assess whether the incidence of VAP can also be reduced at our hospital."
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Death and Dying.
This paper is a personal, experiential, explication essay on the notion of death and dying, which the author faced during his father's five-year fight against esophageal cancer and eventual death.
5,930 words (approx. 23.7 pages), 4 sources, MLA, £ 99.95
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This paper explains that the idea of death and dying is abhorrent; yet, in the case of the author's father, his dying and death was a process of renewal for him, for the author, for the author's mother, and siblings and members of the vast family of seventeen children into which his father was born. The author points out that he does fear death, not the actual act of dying, but knowing of the incompleteness it brings. The paper explains that Elizabeth Kubler-Ross's formalism on the stages in death and dying helped him to put his grief in a better context and to categorize his feelings.
Table of Content
Introduction
Individual Coping Strategies
Differential Treatment from Others
The Will to Live
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"The concepts of heaven and hell have evolved over time. This extends for all major religions. Practitioners are admonished to seek good over evil for fear that they might face the fires of hell in the scary and graphic detail elaborately laid out by Dante in the "Inferno." It is not the hell fire and brimstone of the time of the awakening as Christian dogma evolved in the United States. Even the pope has spoken about heaven and hell actually being experienced here on earth, through how a person conducts his or her life. Going back to the differences between eastern and western thought of dying can be summed up in the concepts of Sogyal Rinpoche. In his "Tibetan Book of Living and Dying" he puts forth the idea that Tibetans believe that the best way to live ones life to the fullest is to spend every waking moment of it preparing to die. Such a morbid fascination with death would have no place in the western thought. And yet there is some truth to it."
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"The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide", 2004.
A critique of Gerd Theissen and Annette Merz's "The Historical Jesus: A Comprehensive Guide".
2,187 words (approx. 8.7 pages), 1 source, MLA, £ 47.95
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This paper explains how Theissen and Merz explore the subject matter of the historical Jesus in light of primary sources, especially relying on the Gospels, both canonical and apocryphal. It discusses the unique style of the layout and sources of the book and provides a critique of its shortcomings.
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"The book is divided into four main sections, in addition to a meaty Introduction, a ?Retrospect? called ?A Short Life of Jesus,? and two helpful indexes, one of Biblical References and one of Names and Subjects included in the text. The Historical Jesus, published in North America by Fortress Press, was translated from the original German by John Bowden. A full set of sources and collections of sources is provided by the authors at the beginning of the book; moreover, at the onset of each chapter of the book are blocks of bibliography offering the reader a helpful guide for further research and reading. Therefore, the authors do not follow the traditional arrangement of bibliographical information by providing a set of sources at the end of the book; however, footnotes are frequently used. Furthermore, suggestions for further readings are provided at the end of some of the sections. Following the initial source selection is a comprehensive list of abbreviations used within the text. The Historical Jesus is as comprehensive as its title purports; it is also a well-organized, structured, and straightforward piece of accessible scholarship."
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Cornelia de Lange Syndrome, 2005.
A study of the Cornelia de Lange Syndrome, a genetic disorder causing numerous disfigurements and defects.
675 words (approx. 2.7 pages), 4 sources, £ 18.95
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This paper studies the genetic disorder called Cornelia de Lange Syndrome; a disorder affecting fetal development and presenting with a complete host of disorders and disfigurements, including deformed or missing fingers or limbs, retardation, speech impairment, cardiac issues and severe esophageal-gastric problems requiring immediate surgery. According to this paper, the gene responsible for this disorder was isolated by two research teams in spring of 2004 and these findings are also discussed as are their implications.
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"This paper presents a brief yet comprehensive review of Cornelia de Lange Syndrome (CdLS), a genetic disorder that affects the developing fetus in the womb, and is most often diagnosed in infants through the presentation of multiple physical abnormalities evident at birth, including: impaired growth, gastroesophageal reflux and feeding problems, upper limb abnormalities and distinctive facial features such as thin eyebrows that join together, long eyelashes, thin lips and excessive body hair. CdLS affects approximately 1 - 10,000 children. Our presentation will be broken down into logical reporting sections that closely parallel the Clinical Case Studies section of the text, including Principles, Background, Major Phenotypic Features, Pathogenesis/Molecular Basis, followed by a brief discussion on inheritance risk and disease management. Please note: no specific case will be identified; therefore, a case history will not be presented."
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Portal Hypertension, 2002.
An overview of the physiological basis for portal hypertension.
1,150 words (approx. 4.6 pages), 6 sources, £ 30.95
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This paper discusses the physiological basis for portal hypertension and relates this condition to the development of ascites, esophageal varices, and splenomegaly in patients suffering from cirrhosis of the liver. Medical journals are cited to support the information presented.
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Multiculturalism, 2004.
An analysis of the psychology of multiculturalism.
3,508 words (approx. 14.0 pages), 11 sources, MLA, £ 68.95
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This paper discusses multiculturalism, with a focus on its development, its use by society, and the ways in which the field of psychology has reacted towards it. A brief history of the meaning of multiculturalism is presented. The paper reviews the work of several authors, in particular Kymlicka, Taylor, and Gerd, who have been influential in the development of research about multiculturalism.
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"Multiculturalism can therefore be seen as the ?weaning out? of the ethnic territory of citizens of a many-cultured democracy, under which multiculturalism is reflected at the social level with the psychological changes that occur within individual members of a society when they embrace many cultures: it has been argued that as a result of traumas suffered as part of a ?minority? group, a member of that ethnic group may eschew their ethnicity and enter in to the multicultural mass at large in order to avoid being perceived, by society as whole, as a member of that traumatized group (Makedon, 1996). This phenomena, which is labeled as ? escape from the traumatized self? by psychologists is well documented in ethnic and assimilation studies, in which people have been shown to disavow their native culture in favor of the dominant white culture (Makedon, 1996)."
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