Efficacy of exercise therapy during radiotherapy to prevent reduction in mouth opening in patients with head and neck cancer: A randomized controlled trial.

OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to compare the efficacy of 2 protocols of exercise therapy to avoid reduction in mouth opening (MO) in patients undergoing radiotherapy for head and neck cancer. STUDY DESIGN: This was a randomized, controlled, double-blind, 3-arm, parallel-group, prevention clinical trial. Ninety patients were randomized into 3 groups to perform exercises during radiotherapy treatment: intervention group 1 (G1); intervention group 2 (G2); and control group (CG). Maximum MO was measured before (T0), immediately after (T1), and at 12 months (T2) after completion of radiotherapy treatment. Generalized estimating equations model complemented by the least significant difference test was applied to group comparisons. RESULTS: There was no significant difference in MO measure between the groups at the 3 assessment time points (P = .264). The difference in MO measure from baseline to 12 months after having completed radiotherapy was -1 mm in CG (95% confidence interval [CI] -4.0 to 2.0); 1.3 mm in G1 (95% CI -1.7 to 4.3); and 0.5 mm in G2 (95% CI -3.4 to 4.4). CONCLUSIONS: It was not possible to conclude that the exercise protocols performed in this study are more effective than the usual guidance to prevent reduction in MO in patients undergoing radiotherapy for head and neck cancer.

Joint commission international: novo éthos hospitalar e o empresariamento dos colaboradores / Joint commission international: new hospital ethos and entrepreneurship of employees

A presente dissertação tem por objetivo problematizar discursos que constituem as práticas de Acreditação Hospitalar da Joint Commission International mais especificamente, aquelas enunciações voltadas para a formação/educação e empresariamento dos colaboradores. Baseada nas ideias de Michel Foucault, a pesquisa desenvolve-se na operação de conceitos/ferramentas da governamentalidade e, como constituintes desta, do governamento e da subjetivação. Como superfície de análise, foi utilizada a quinta edição do Manual de Padrões de Acreditação Hospitalar da Joint Commission International. As reflexões desenvolvidas permitem ver que os discursos da saúde, empresariais e educacionais ao articularem-se em uma grade de inteligibilidade neoliberal, operam na construção de possibilidades competitivas de formação dos colaboradores, visando a transformação do éthos hospitalar, a partir da transformação do colaborador. Portanto, há um novo éthos hospitalar formativo e homogeneizador, construído na Contemporaneidade, que impõem à Joint Commission International a escuta permanente dos clientes e, para estes, investimentos em sua formação profissional e em padronização de serviços e atendimentos.

This work aims to debate the discourses that constitute the practices of Hospital Accreditation of the Joint Commission International; more specifically, those enunciations directed to the training/education and entrepreneurship of employees. Based on Michel Foucault's ideas, the research develops operating concepts/tools of governmentality and, as constituents thereof, of the government and subjectivation. As surface to be analysed was used the fifth edition of Hospital Accreditation Standards Manual of the Joint Commission International. The developed analyses allow us to see that the discourses of health, business and education are articulated in a neoliberal intelligibility grid and operate in building competitive opportunities for employee training, aiming at the transformation of the hospital ethos from the transformation of the employee on a businessman himself. So there is a new hospital ethos, training and homogenizing, built in contemporary times, which impose to the Joint Commission International permanent listening to customers, and for them, investments in their training and standardization of services and attendances.

Esta tesis pretende problematizar los discursos que constituyen las prácticas del Hospital de acreditación de la Joint Commission International, más concretamente, esas declaraciones dirigidas a la formación / educación y el espíritu empresarial de los empleados. Sobre la base de las ideas de Michel Foucault, la investigación se desarrolla los conceptos de operaciones / herramientas gubernamentalidad y como componentes de los mismos, del governamento y subjetividad. Como análisis de superficie, se utilizó la quinta edición del Manual de Normas de acreditación de hospitales de la Joint Commission International. Las reflexiones desarrolladas nos permiten ver que los discursos de la salud, los negocios y la educación para articular en una cuadrícula inteligibilidad neoliberal, trabajamos en la construcción de oportunidades competitivas para la capacitación del personal, orientadas a la transformación de la ética del hospital, de la transformación del empleado. Así que hay un nuevo hospital éthos y la formación homogeneizador, construida en el contemporáneo, que practican la escucha permanente de la Comisión Conjunta Internacional a los clientes y, por estas inversiones en su formación y estandarización de servicios y comodidades...