Consequently, best-management practices continue to focus on supportive care and intensive physiologic monitoring.
However, these studies focused on supportive treatment used to treat respiratory failure rather than to prevent it.
The patient became progressively more sedated allowing the medical and nursing staff to provide monitored care focussed on supportive measures.
Forty-four paccrued accrued to Phase I or Phase II investigational therapy trials were simultaneously enrolled into a defined home care program focused on supportive care needs of the patient and family, as well as assessment of the toxicities of investigational therapy.
Current treatment strategies for HUS generally focus on supportive care including stabilization of the renal and hematologic manifestations.
29 In our study, many sex workers focused on supportive beliefs that outweighed dissonant behavior by believing strongly that sexual transmission was not the only route of transmission.
Such management may be more successful if focused on supportive measures and more intensive glucose control, rather than family planning (11).
Papers from the early- to mid-2000s tonded to focus on supervision frequency, supervisor training, and peer or group supervision while later papers tended to focus on supportive supervision, quality assurance/problem solving, and community supervision.
Because therapeutic options are limited and the majority of intervention strategies are focused on supportive treatment, emphasis has been placed on identifying patients who are at higher risk for ALI [ 4, 5].
The supervisors' manual and training focused on supportive supervision techniques, training, handling underperforming staff, quality management, tracking study activities, and performing oversight, spot checks, and reinterviews to ensure the validity and reliability of the data.
