Mei Ling Yeh

..It is recommended conducting more studies on qi-gong and then introducing it in clinical nursing practice at an appropriate time to promote quality of nursing care and quality of patient life...

..In the future, more efforts should be put into evidence-based study in order to verify the scientific effectiveness of Sanfujin Tianjin therapy...

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..Primary dysmenorrhea is a common gynecologic complain in women of reproductive age. Acupoint stimulation therapies might be an effective intervention for primary dysmenorrhea...

..This study aimed to construct an intervention of acupressure and interactive multimedia for visual health and to evaluate the effect of its application on schoolchildren...

..The results demonstrated that the HA MBI videodisc could improve patient self-care cognition in operative preparation and functional activity in post-operative rehabilitation...

..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of acupoint electrical stimulation with patient-controlled analgesia (PCA) on reducing acute pain, nausea, and vomiting after surgery for nontraumatic spinal cord injury...

..Acupoint electrical stimulation (AES) is commonly used for pain management. However, its true or placebo effect to achieve pain relief needs to be verified...

..To evaluate the effects of analgesia quality provided by a patient-controlled analgesia multimedia intervention on the pain management of postsurgical patients in Taiwan...

..The researchers hope that the information provided in this paper may contribute to the nursing profession education, practice and research in the field of nursing for traditional Chinese medicine...

..Consequently, although the translation adequacy of the Chinese CCTDI needs to be improved, there is evidence that it is useful for evaluating critical thinking dispositions...

..As nurses face increasingly complex health-care situations, critical thinking can promote appropriate clinical decision-making and improve the quality of nursing care...

..To examine the factors correlating with repetitive use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM)...

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..Smoking plays a disease-related risk factor and is however the principal cause of preventable death. Many studies support the use of combined rather than single interventions to stop smoking...

..The short- and long-term effects of the interventions were then evaluated by visual health knowledge, visual acuity, and refractive error...

..The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of rice vinegar administered via nasogastric feeding tube on catheter-associated bacteriuria in patients with long-term urinary catheterization...

..The purpose of this paper therefore is to provide medical personnel with information on the developments and trends in, knowledge and research with regard to traditional medicine as well as complementary and alternative medicine...

..Future studies need more evidence-based research on the exact effect or placebo effect of acupoint stimulation and the appropriate design for sham acupoint, to examine quitting effect using acupoint stimulation in adult smokers...

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..We concluded that sentinel node biopsy, together with the use of immunochemical techniques to identify micrometastatic foci, has allowed surgeons to decide at the time of surgery whether to perform axillary node dissection...

..These results contribute to the information required for consideration of the cultural variables aimed at caring for cancer patients...

..The aims of the study were to explore the role of SN biopsy in these patients in Taiwan and to assess the role of intraoperative ultrasound examination of the non-SN level...

..This study aims to determine whether serum TRACP5b is useful for identifying limited or extensive BM in BC patients...

..This study explored the fatigue experiences in older Taiwanese women with breast cancer...

..We tested the hypothesis that baseline serum TRACP 5b activity and its interval change are potential prognostic markers of survival in BC patients with bone metastasis...

..0001), but not in normal individuals or in patients without bone metastasis. TRACP 5b activity can be considered a surrogate indicator of bone metastasis in breast cancer patients...

..It may be concluded that the combined regimen is not well tolerated in our patients and needed to be further evaluated in the future...

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..Our data support the use of either TRACP5b activity or NTX level to follow up breast cancer patients with bone metastasis after treatment instead of the prevailing BAP activity...