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COMP Report: CPQR technical quality control guidelines for use of positron emission tomography/computed tomography in radiation treatment planning

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Positron emission tomography with x‐ray computed tomography (PET/CT) is increasingly being utilized for radiation treatment planning (RTP). Accurate delivery of RT therefore depends on quality PET/CT data. This study covers quality control (QC) procedures required for PET/CT for diagnostic imaging and incremental QC required for RTP.
Ran Klein, Mike Oliver, Dan La Russa, John Agapito, Stewart Gaede, JeanPierre Bissonnette, Arman Rahmim, Carlos Uribe   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Family caregivers’ concerns about advance care planning for home-dwelling people with dementia: a cross-sectional observational study in Japan

BMC Palliative Care, 2022
Background The importance of advance care planning for people with dementia has increased during the Coronavirus Disease 2019 Pandemic. However, family caregivers may have concerns about having conversations regarding advance care planning with their ...
Miharu Nakanishi, Taeko Nakashima, Yuki Miyamoto, Syudo Yamasaki, Atsushi Nishida   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

"Hope for the best, prepare for the worst": A qualitative interview study on parents' needs and fears in pediatric advance care planning. [PDF]

, 2016
Pediatric advance care planning is advocated by healthcare providers because it may increase the chance that patient and/or parent wishes are respected and thus improve end-of-life care.
Borasio, G.D., Daxer, M., Führer, M., Jox, R.J., Lotz, J.D.   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Asian patients’ perspectives on advance care planning: A mixed-method systematic review and conceptual framework

Palliative Medicine, 2021
Background: Asian healthcare professionals hold that patients’ families play an essential role in advance care planning. Aim: To systematically synthesize evidence regarding Asian patients’ perspectives on advance care planning and their underlying ...
D. Martina, O. Geerse, Cheng-Pei Lin, M. S. Kristanti, W. Bramer, M. Mori, I. Korfage, A. van der Heide, J. Rietjens, C. V. D. van der Rijt   +9 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The application of multiple metrics in deformable image registration for target volume delineation of breast tumor bed

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Background and purpose For postoperative breast cancer patients, deformable image registration (DIR) is challenged due to the large deformations and non‐correspondence caused by tumor resection and clip insertion. To deal with it, three metrics (fiducial‐, region‐, and intensity‐based) were jointly used in DIR algorithm for improved accuracy ...
Xin Xie, Yuchun Song, Feng Ye, Hui Yan, Shulian Wang, Xinming Zhao, Jianrong Dai   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficacy of Normalisation of Advance Care Planning (NACP) for people with chronic diseases in hospital and community settings: a quasi-experimental study

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Advance Care Planning (ACP) has emerged to improve end-of-life processes and experiences. However, the available evidence presents the gloomy picture of increasing number of older people living with chronic diseases and the mismatch between ...
Sarah Jeong, Peter Cleasby, Se Ok Ohr, Tomiko Barrett, Ryan Davey, Christopher Oldmeadow   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A website supporting sensitive religious and cultural advance care planning (ACPTalk): Formative and summative evaluation [PDF]

, 2018
Background: Advance care planning (ACP) promotes conversations about future health care needs, enacted if a person is incapable of making decisions at end-of-life that may be communicated through written documentation such as advance care directives.
Boyd, leanne.boyd@acu.edu.au, Leanne Boyd, Mader, Patrick, O'Callaghan, Clare, Pereira-Salgado, Amanda   +4 more
core   +2 more sources

Evaluation of intrafraction couch shifts for proton treatment delivery in head‐and‐neck cancer patients: Toward optimal imaging frequency

Journal of Applied Clinical Medical Physics, Volume 23, Issue 12, December 2022., 2022
Abstract Purpose Treatment planning for head‐and‐neck (H&N) cancer, in particular oropharynx, nasopharynx, and paranasal sinus cases, at our center requires noncoplanar proton beams due to the complexity of the anatomy and target location. Targeting accuracy for all beams is carefully evaluated by using image guidance before delivering proton beam ...
Nrusingh C. Biswal, Dario B. Rodrigues, Weiguang Yao, Jason K. Molitoris, Matthew E. Witek, Shifeng Chen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Social workers’ involvement in advance care planning: a systematic narrative review

BMC Palliative Care, 2017
Background Advance care planning is a process of discussion that enables competent adults to express their wishes about end-of-life care through periods of decisional incapacity.
Chong-Wen Wang, Cecilia L. W. Chan, Amy Y. M. Chow   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Junior Medical Officers’ knowledge of advance care directives and substitute decision making for people without decision making capacity: a cross sectional survey

BMC Medical Ethics, 2022
Background For the benefits of advance care planning to be realised during a hospital admission, the treating team must have accurate knowledge of the law pertaining to implementation of advance care directives (ACDs) and substitute decision making. Aims
Jamie Bryant, Amy Waller, Alison Bowman, Robert Pickles, Carolyn Hullick, Emma Price, Ben White, Lindy Willmott, Anne Knight, Mary-Ann Ryall, Rob Sanson-Fisher   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source