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“Purpose: Communication with health care providers

is important to help meet cancer patients’ information and support needs. It can significantly affect the extent to which patients feel cared for, respected and involved, and it can influence a range of cancer care processes and outcomes. This paper presents findings from a study which explored urological cancer patients’ experiences of care, focussing on insights into what they appeared to value in their interactions with health care providers and why.

Method: In-depth interviews were undertaken with 20 men and 6 women with different types of urological cancer at a range of times since diagnosis. Interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed and thematically analysed using an established interpretive approach.

Results: Patients valued being treated as someone who mattered and was worthy of

find more care; being recognised and responded to as an individual; and experiencing support for autonomy/agency. Reasons for their valuations related to the implications of communicative interactions for the ways patients thought health professionals related to them ‘as persons’. Our findings highlight the value of relational aspects of communication for: indicating to patients what clinicians think of their worth; facilitating individualised care; and enabling patients to contribute to their own care.

Conclusions: Efforts to improve health care provider-patient communication should attend not only to the transfer of information Proteasome cleavage about the condition and its management but to the range of features of interactions that can signal to people how health care providers relate to them as persons. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.”
“Cu(II) complex bamboo pulp fabric (CBPF) was prepared by treating bamboo pulp fabric with the copper liquor. Washing fastness and the releases of Cu(II) were measured by the washing test. Antibacterial performance of CBPF against Escherichia

coli and Staphylococcus aureus was evaluated. see more The morphology of Cu(II) on the fiber surface was characterized with scanning electron microscope. FTIR spectroscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectrometry were used to detect the chemical bonding between Cu(II) and cellulose. X-ray diffraction, thermogravimetry and mechanical test were used to investigate the effect of Cu(II) on the crystallinity, thermal stability, and mechanical property of bamboo fabric. The results showed that Cu(II) ion was bonded to fiber surface, especially via forming metal complex with hydroxyl of cellulose, and the resultant complex CBPF demonstrated excellent antibacterial activity and good thermal stability. In comparison with those of the bamboo pulp fabric in the condition that mechanical properties have no significant change, the crystallinity was decreased from 44.8% to 40.5% after treatment. (C) 2010 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.