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Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook, Veerain Gupta, Nicholas J. Clark, Vijay Rings, Lauren E. Corona, Douglass B. Clayton, Daniel J. Benedetti   +6 more
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Improving Electronic Health Record (EHR) data linkages for identifying Aged Care Residents through publicly available data

International Journal of Population Data Science
Introduction Accurate identification of Aged Care residents accessing hospital services is challenging due to multiple hospital Electronic Health Record (EHR) systems and entry points resulting in inconsistent addresses and coding.
Tanya Ravipati, Richard Beare, Velandai Srikanth, Alison Carver, Lei Huang, Rashwinder Dhillon, Nadine E Andrew   +6 more
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IL-6 secretion in osteoarthritis patients is mediated by chondrocyte-synovial fibroblast cross-talk and is enhanced by obesity

Scientific Reports, 2017
Increasing evidence suggests that inflammation plays a central role in driving joint pathology in certain patients with osteoarthritis (OA). Since many patients with OA are obese and increased adiposity is associated with chronic inflammation, we ...
Mark J. Pearson, Dietmar Herndler-Brandstetter, Mohammad A. Tariq, Thomas A. Nicholson, Ashleigh M. Philp, Hannah L. Smith, Edward T. Davis, Simon W. Jones, Janet M. Lord   +8 more
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Aged care in Australia: part I – policy, demand and funding [PDF]

, 2014
As population ageing means more people will require care and support, this research brief looks at demand and funding of formal and informal care.

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Healthy ageing and home: The perspectives of very old people in five European countries [PDF]

, 2014
This paper reports on in-depth research, using a grounded theory approach, to examine the ways in which very old people perceive healthy ageing in the context of living alone at home within urban settings in five European countries.
Fange, A, Tomsone, S, TOMSONE Signe, Woolrych, R., WOOLRYCH Ryan, Sixsmith, Andrew, Dahlin-Ivanoff, Sylvia, Naumann, D., Woolrych, Ryan, Dahlin-Ivanoff, Synneve,, SIXSMITH Andrew, Dahlin-Ivanoff, Synneve, Sixsmith, Judith, KUCSERA Csaba, Fänge Malmgren, Agneta, NAUMANN Dörte, Sixsmith, J.; id_orcid, Sixsmith, A., Dahlin-Ivanoff, S., Kucsera, Csaba, Dahlin-Ivanoff, S, Kucsera, C., Woolrych, R, Naumann, Dorte, Sixsmith, A, Kucsera, C, DAHLIN-IVANOFF Synneve, Tomsone, S., Malmgren Fänge, Agneta, Sixsmith, J, Tomsone, Signe, HAAK Maria, Haak, Maria, SIXSMITH Judith, Haak, M., Haak, M, Fänge, A. Malmgren, Naumann, D, MALMGREN FÄNGE Anita   +38 more
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The Role of Hematopoietic Cell Transplantation in Ataxia‐Telangiectasia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Ataxia‐telangiectasia (A‐T) is a DNA repair disorder characterized by neurodegeneration, immunodeficiency, and cancer predisposition. Hematopoietic cell transplantation (HCT) is an established therapy in related disorders such as Fanconi anemia (FA) and Nijmegen breakage syndrome (NBS), but its role in A‐T is unclear.
Laila Alkhouli, Seth Rotz, Masatoshi Takagi, Richa Sharma   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Unravelling the transcriptomic symphony of muscle ageing: key pathways and hub genes altered by ageing and caloric restriction in rat muscle revealed by RNA sequencing

BMC Genomics
Age-related muscle wasting, sarcopenia is an extensive loss of muscle mass and strength with age and a major cause of disability and accidents in the elderly.
Gulam Altab, Brian J. Merry, Charles W. Beckett, Priyanka Raina, Inês Lopes, Katarzyna Goljanek-Whysall, João Pedro de Magalhães   +6 more
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Unsettling ageing in three novels by Pat Barker

, 2011
Within the growing body of interdisciplinary work on ageing, more attention is now paid to literary engagement with and representations of ageing, often in the form of literary gerontology.
SARAH FALCUS, Falcus, Sarah
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Increased Risk of Sarcomas in Children With Congenital Anomalies: Findings From the Genetic Overlap Between Anomalies and Cancer in Kids (GOBACK) Registry Linkage Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric sarcomas are a heterogeneous group of tumors that contribute disproportionately to cancer mortality in children. Although congenital anomalies are among the strongest known risk factors for childhood cancer, the risk of specific sarcoma subtypes among affected individuals has not yet been thoroughly evaluated. Procedure We
Russ Wolters, Ji Yun Tark, Tiffany M. Chambers, Tania A. Desrosiers, Michael E. Scheurer, Charles Shumate, Wendy N. Nembhard, Mahsa M. Yazdy, Eirini Nestoridi, Amanda E. Janitz, Jean Paul Tanner, Russell S. Kirby, Jason L. Salemi, Yao Yu, Chad D. Huff, Sharon E. Plon, Philip J. Lupo, Jeremy M. Schraw   +17 more
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Specialised residential care for older people subject to homelessness: experiences of residents and staff of a new aged care home in Australia

BMC Geriatrics
Background The number of older people experiencing homelessness in Australia is rising, yet there is a lack of specialised residential care for older people subject to homelessness with high care and palliative needs.
Costanza Preti, Christopher J Poulos, Roslyn G Poulos, Najwa L Reynolds, Allison C Rowlands, Kyall Flakelar, Angela Raguz, Peter Valpiani, Steven G Faux, Claire MC O’Connor   +9 more
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