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We found about 128 results for Stages
  1. Cancer Staging and Grading
  2. End-Stage Renal Disease
  3. MELD Score (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease) Learn about a MELD score (Model for End-Stage Liver Disease). Find out why a MELD score is done and how your doctor finds your MELD score.
  4. Stages of Sleep
  5. Heart Failure Stages
  6. Radiation for Early-Stage Breast Cancer
  7. Thinking About Bilateral Mastectomy for Early-Stage Breast Cancer
  8. HIV: Stages of Infection
  9. Stages of Sleep Apnea
  10. Breast Cancer: Lymph Node Surgery for Staging Cancer
  11. Stages of Syphilis
  12. Stages of Chronic Kidney Disease
  13. Breast Cancer: Should I Have Chemotherapy for Early-Stage Breast Cancer? Guides you through decision to use chemotherapy for early-stage breast cancer. Lists reasons for and against chemotherapy. Covers side effects. Includes interactive tool to help you make your decision.
  14. Stages of Lyme Disease
  15. Family Life Cycle Theory Discusses one possible theory—the family life cycle theory—that proposes describing the family life cycle using certain stages. Stages include independence and adulthood, coupling, parenting, and retirement.
  16. Chronic Kidney Disease Discusses chronic kidney disease (chronic renal failure), which means your kidneys don't work the way they should. Discusses dialysis. Covers treating diabetes and high blood pressure, which cause most cases of chronic kidney disease.
  17. Gamete and Zygote Intrafallopian Transfer (GIFT and ZIFT)
  18. Acute Kidney Injury Versus Chronic Kidney Disease
  19. Making a Change That Matters
  20. Not Ready for Change?
  21. Thinking About a Change?
  22. Making Your Change Happen
  23. Planning for a Change That Matters
  24. 5 Tips to Keep Your Healthy Lifestyle Change Going Learn five tips to help you keep a healthy lifestyle change going.
  25. American Urological Association Symptom Index
  26. Keeping Change Going—Your New Normal
  27. Your Toddler: Safe Ways to Explore
  28. Advance Care Planning: Should I Stop Kidney Dialysis? Guides through decision to stop kidney dialysis for kidney failure. Covers key factors in decision. Covers benefits and risks. Discusses what happens after dialysis is stopped. Offers interactive tool to help you make your decision.
  29. Rating of Perceived Exertion (RPE)
  30. Interactive Tool: How Bad Are Your Urinary Symptoms From Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia (BPH)? Interactive tool to help you figure out whether you want treatment for urinary symptoms from benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH). Provides links to more detailed info on BPH and decision tools for treatment options.
  31. Milestones for Ages 15 to 18
  32. Cataracts: Eye Care After Surgery
  33. Cataract Surgery
  34. Interactive Tool: Are You Ready to Quit Smoking? Interactive tool measures your readiness to quit smoking. Helps you identify the stage of change that you're in. Offers questions to help you think about what to do next. Includes link to more info on quitting tobacco use.
  35. Diary of Symptoms
  36. Colorectal Cancer, Metastatic or Recurrent Discusses colon and rectal cancers that return after treatment or that spread to other parts of the body. Looks at symptoms. Discusses treatment with surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy.
  37. Pressure Injuries
  38. Cataract Surgery Learn what to expect during cataract surgery and how it can improve your vision.
  39. Intraocular Lens (IOL) Implants
  40. Laser Photocoagulation for Diabetic Retinopathy
  41. Heart Rhythm Problems: Diary of Symptoms
  42. HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) Infection Discusses HIV, a virus that attacks white blood cells called CD4+ cells which are an important part of the immune system. Covers symptoms and stages of infection, including last stage called AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome). Covers HIV treatment.
  43. Pressure Injuries: Prevention and Treatment
  44. Surgery for Glaucoma and a Cataract
  45. Breast Cancer: Should I Have Breast-Conserving Surgery or a Mastectomy? Guides you through decision about which surgery to have for early-stage breast cancer. Lists benefits and risks of both mastectomy and breast-conserving surgery. Includes interactive tool to help you make your decision.
  46. Coping When Your Child Is Near the End of Life
  47. Milestones for Ages 11 to 14
  48. Health Screening: Finding Health Problems Early Covers screening tests, diagnostic tests, and medical exams used to find a disease or determine risk for certain health problems. Covers well-child visits. Includes links to info on routine tests for men, for women, and at various stages of life.
  49. Labor and Delivery Explains labor and delivery, including planning, signs of labor, pain management, types of delivery, labor stages, labor positions, medical procedures, and what happens right after birth.
  50. Health Tracking Forms and Checklists
  51. Breast Cancer, Metastatic or Recurrent Discusses recurrent breast cancer. Covers symptoms and tests that diagnose cancer that has come back or spread. Discusses treatment with medicine or surgery. Offers home treatment tips for drug side effects or pain. Covers addressing emotional needs.
  52. Hospice Care Discusses hospice care, which includes medical, emotional, and spiritual care for people who are in the last stages of a serious illness. Guides through decision to seek hospice care. Covers how to choose a program. Covers end-of-life legal issues.
  53. Cervical Cancer Discusses testing, diagnosis, and treatment of cervical cancer. Explains how most cervical cancer is caused by a virus called human papillomavirus, or HPV. Explains that it's usually found through screening. Covers prevention with vaccine.
  54. Advance Care Planning: Treatment Choices Near the End of Life It can be hard to know which treatments you may or may not want near the end of life. Learning more can help.
  55. How to Track Your Stress Explores one technique for recording your daily stresses, how you reacted, and how you coped. Explains how to use this record to look for patterns and explore better coping techniques.
  56. Heartburn Symptom Record
  57. Heart Failure: Symptom Record
  58. Pain Control at the End of Life
  59. Heart Failure Symptoms
  60. Palliative Care for Pain and Treatment Side Effects
  61. Cataracts: Should I Have Surgery? Guides through decision to have cataract surgery. Describes the surgery and how well it works. Includes when cataract surgery is normally recommended. Covers benefits and risks. Includes an interactive tool to help you make your decision.
  62. Cervical Cancer Screening
  63. Heart Failure Describes heart failure (congestive heart failure). Discusses common causes like hypertension and coronary artery disease. Has info on symptoms. Covers diagnostic tests and treatments. Discusses heart failure classification system and stages of CHF.
  64. Anemia of Chronic Kidney Disease
  65. Kidney Disease: Changing Your Diet Discusses changing your diet to help protect your kidneys when you have kidney disease. Gives general ideas about how to follow the diet your doctor or dietitian recommends. Covers limiting salt (sodium), protein, phosphorus, and potassium.
  66. Heart Failure: Track Your Symptoms Learn to keep track of your symptoms to help manage your heart failure.
  67. Heart Failure: What Are Daily Symptom Checks? Learn how to easily check your symptoms daily so you can stay healthy.
  68. Heart Failure: When to Act on Your Symptoms Learn how to know when changes in your symptoms mean you should get help.
  69. Dialysis: What Is It? Understand what dialysis is and how it helps you feel better and live longer.
  70. Kidney Failure: When Should I Start Dialysis? Discusses the decision about when to start dialysis. Includes what kidney failure is, the treatment for it, and reasons why you might or might not want to start dialysis. Includes interactive tool to help you make your decision.
  71. Kidney Failure: Should I Start Dialysis? Guides through decision whether to start kidney dialysis for kidney failure. Covers key factors in decision. Covers benefits and risks. Offers interactive tool to help you make your decision.
  72. Kidney Failure: What Type of Dialysis Should I Have? Guides through decision about what type of dialysis to have for kidney failure. Explains the two basic types of dialysis: hemodialysis and peritoneal. Covers benefits and risks. Includes an interactive tool to help you make your decision.
  73. Care at the End of Life Discusses decisions related to care near the end of life. Discusses choosing where to get care and what kind you want. Covers who will make decisions if you can't. Info on advance directives and need for durable power of attorney.
  74. Heart Failure: Learn to Recognize Symptoms Learn how checking your symptoms every day helps you manage your heart failure.
  75. Dialysis: Measuring How Well It Works
  76. Prothrombin Time (PT/INR) Test
  77. Uremia
  78. Chronic Kidney Disease: Medicines to Be Careful With
  79. Form for Establishing a Routine
  80. Making Positive Changes in Your Life After Quitting Smoking
  81. Healthy Eating: Overcoming Barriers to Change
  82. Heart Failure: When to Call for Help Learn why you need a written plan to know when heart failure symptoms are an emergency.
  83. Using a Home Test Kit for Protein in Urine
  84. Healthy Eating: Taking Calcium and Vitamin D Discusses taking calcium and vitamin D to prevent or treat osteoporosis. Includes info on how much calcium you need based on your age or life stage. Offers list of calcium-rich foods and calcium supplements.
  85. Lifestyle Changes That May Help Prevent Cancer
  86. Care in the Hospital: Preventing Pressure Injuries Learn what you can do and what your care team will be doing to help prevent pressure injuries during a hospital stay.
  87. Prediabetes: Healthy Changes You Can Make Learn how to make healthy changes that can help delay or prevent type 2 diabetes.
  88. Preschoolers: Building Self-Control
  89. Managing Your Toddler's Frustrating Behaviors
  90. Thinking About Child Safety
  91. Your Toddler: Nutritious Meals for Picky Eaters
  92. Hemodialysis Access: When Is the Right Time? Learn how timing affects what type of vascular access you can get before you start dialysis.
  93. Dialysis: Your Vascular Access Learn what to expect when you have a vascular access procedure for hemodialysis.
  94. Kidney Transplant: Before Your Surgery Learn what happens during a kidney transplant and how to prepare.
  95. Kidney Transplant: Returning Home Learn how to care for yourself after a kidney transplant.
  96. Peritoneal Dialysis Discusses peritoneal dialysis. Covers having a catheter and using dialysate solution. Discusses hemodialysis. Looks at what to expect after treatment, how well it works, and risks.
  97. Temper Tantrums: Keeping a Record
  98. Temper Tantrums
  99. Kidney Transplant Discusses surgery to replace a diseased kidney with a healthy one. Explains what a living donor is. Covers what to expect after surgery. Looks at risks. Links to picture of kidney transplant. Links to more in-depth info on organ transplant.
  100. Vascular Access Failure

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