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Improving Health Care Access for Older Alaskans: What Are the Options? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This report focuses on the problem older Alaskans who rely on Medicare face getting access to primary care, and discusses some of the options policymakers are considering to resolve the problem.
Foster, Mark A., Frazier, Rosyland
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Integral patient scheduling in outpatient clinics under demand uncertainty to minimize patient waiting times

open access: yesHealth Informatics Journal, 2020
This study addressed the problem of scheduling walk-in patients in real time. Outpatient clinics encounter uncertainty in patient demand. In addition, the disparate departments are locally (department-centric) organized, leading to prolonged waiting ...
Jyoti R. Munavalli   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Efficacy and Tolerability of Topotecan/Cyclophosphamide/Dinutuximab in Relapsed and Refractory High‐Risk Neuroblastoma: A Multi‐Institutional Retrospective Study

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Chemoimmunotherapy with irinotecan, temozolomide, and dinutuximab (I/T/DIN) has emerged as first‐line therapy for relapsed/refractory (r/r) high‐risk neuroblastoma (HRNB) in North America. Topotecan and cyclophosphamide (T/C) are often used in combination with dinutuximab in the setting of lack of response, progression, or incomplete ...
Benjamin J. Lerman   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Task shifting to improve the provision of integrated chronic care: realist evaluation of a lay health worker intervention in rural South Africa

open access: yesBMJ Global Health, 2019
Introduction Task shifting is a potential solution to the shortage of healthcare personnel in low/middle-income countries, but contextual factors often dilute its effectiveness.
Felix Limbani   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Addressing Resource Gaps in the U.S. Health Care Safety Net: An Assessment of the Free Clinic Network [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Based on a survey of free clinics serving uninsured low-income patients, examines the resource constraints limiting the expansion of healthcare services provided, including the high costs of labs, equipment, and medication.
Tammy J. Allen
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Clinical Course and Impact of Breaks in Therapy for Children With Relapsed/Refractory Solid Tumors

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pediatric relapsed or refractory (R/R) solid tumors carry a dismal prognosis, and postrelapse patient experiences are not well described. We present postrelapse outcomes, including number of R/R events and subsequent therapy regimens.
Matthew T. McEvoy   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical potential of gene therapy: towards meeting the demand [PDF]

open access: yesInternal Medicine Journal, 2014
AbstractSince the discovery that new genetic material could be transferred into human cells resulting in induced expression of genes and proteins, clinicians and scientists have been working to harness the technology for clinical outcomes. This article provides a summary of the current status of developments within the broad discipline of clinical gene
J L, Macpherson, J E J, Rasko
openaire   +2 more sources

Exploring people’s candidacy for mobile health–supported HIV testing and care services in rural Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa: qualitative study [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
BACKGROUND: The use of mobile communication technologies (mHealth: mobile health) in chronic disease management has grown significantly over the years. mHealth interventions have the potential to decentralize access to health care and make it convenient,
Adeagbo, Oluwafemi   +6 more
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Molecular Methods for Rare Hemoglobinopathy Cases: First Brazilian Report of Pediatric Siblings with Hb O‐Arab and Alpha‐Thalassemia

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Hemoglobinopathies are prevalent globally; diagnosis is complex in high genetic admixture populations like Brazil. We report, in two pediatric siblings, the first documented cases in Brazil of heterozygosity for hemoglobin (Hb) O‐Arab with coinheritance of α‐thalassemia (αα/−α4.2; −α3.7/−α4.2), resulting in microcytic and hypochromic anemia ...
Elisângela de Souza Miranda Muynarsk   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Safety Net hospital Emergency Departments: Creating Safety Valves for Non-urgent Care [PDF]

open access: yes, 2008
Outlines how safety-net hospitals are addressing the rise in emergency department visits for non-urgent care, such as re-directing patients to outpatient clinics or community health centers and adding primary care capacity.
Laurie E. Felland   +2 more
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