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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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Development and refinement of the Clinical Global Impression of Improvement for Non-seizure Symptoms measure in Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome

Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes
Background Dravet syndrome (DS) and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome (LGS) are rare, severe, childhood-onset developmental and epileptic encephalopathies characterized by treatment-resistant epilepsy and varying intellectual disability levels.
J. Scott Andrews, Drishti Shah, Alise Nacson, Tara Symonds, Sophie Hughes, Mahnaz Asgharnejad, Arturo Benitez, Lara Sams   +7 more
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Clinical Studies Target Fewer Complications, Better Outcomes for Vascular Surgery [PDF]

, 2017
Two studies at the Jefferson Vascular Center (JVC) are assessing innovative methods to reduce risk of complications — and increase positive outcomes — for vascular surgery patients. Here, Paul DiMuzio, MD, FACS, William M. Measey Professor of Surgery and

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The science of clinical practice: disease diagnosis or patient prognosis? Evidence about "what is likely to happen" should shape clinical practice. [PDF]

, 2015
BACKGROUND: Diagnosis is the traditional basis for decision-making in clinical practice. Evidence is often lacking about future benefits and harms of these decisions for patients diagnosed with and without disease.
A Chauffard, A Vickers, AD Hingorani, Adam Timmis, AJ Vickers, Alastair D Hay, C Mar Del, CK Lee, DA Asch, Danielle A Van Der Windt, DE Newby, Douglas G Altman, E Rosenberg Charles, E Stolper, EAM Gale, EW Steyerberg, G-J Dinant, George Peat, H Downing, H Hemingway, Harry Hemingway, HG Welch, HM Krumholz, I Roberts, Ian Roberts, Independent UK Panel on Breast Cancer Screening, J Vestbo, J Wellwood, JC Hill, JG Jarvik, Jonathan J Deeks, Jutel Annemarie Goldstein, Kate M Dunn, L Ferrante di Ruffano, Linda LeResche, M Korff Von, M Roland, Michael Sharpe, Michael Von Korff, O Bruder, P Brown, Pablo Perel, PD White, Peter Croft, PM Bossuyt, R Aronowitz, R Moynihan, R Smith-Bindman, RA Aronowitz, Richard D Riley, Richard J Stevens, RK Simmons, RO Bonow, SJ Lord, SS Watson, Steffen E Petersen, TB Murdoch, WJ Katon   +57 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
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The Effect of Pre-Biopsy Prostate MRI on the Congruency and Upgrading of Gleason Grade Groups Between Prostate Biopsy and Radical Prostatectomy

Société Internationale d’Urologie Journal
Introduction: Prostate biopsy results form the mainstay of patient care. However, there is often significant discordance between the biopsied histology and the ‘true’ histology shown on a radical prostatectomy (RP).
Peter Stapleton, Thomas Milton, Niranjan Sathianathen, Michael O’Callaghan   +3 more
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Accelerated return to sport after osteochondral autograft plug transfer [PDF]

, 2017
Background:Previous studies have reported varying return-to-sport protocols after knee cartilage restoration procedures.Purpose:To (1) evaluate the time for return to sport in athletes with an isolated chondral injury who underwent an accelerated return ...
Brockmeier, Stephen F, Cosgrove, Chris T, Diduch, David R, Gilmore, C. Jan, Lyons, Matthew L, Miller, Mark D, Werner, Brian C   +6 more
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The Fate (Outcome) of Clinically Apparent Single Lesion and Oligofocal Nephroblastomatosis Treated According to SIOP/GPOH Protocols for Wilms Tumor

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter, Jens‐Peter Schenk, Jenny Wegert, Manfred Gessler, Leo Kager, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Marina Müller, Jean‐Michel Wolff, Joerg Fuchs, Steven W. Warmann, Clemens‐Magnus Meier, Jochen Hubertus, Christian Rübe, Christian Vokuhl, Patrick Melchior, Lena Tschirner, Norbert Graf, Rhoikos Furtwängler   +17 more
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Excess of weight: is it a modifiable predictive and prognostic factor in locally advanced rectal cancer? [PDF]

, 2017
To evaluate the relationship between body mass index (BMI) and rates of treatment tolerance and clinical outcomes in patients with locally advanced rectal cancer treated with a multimodality approach.
Bulzonetti, N, De Felice, F, Magnante, A. L, Musio, D, Tombolini, V.   +4 more
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Effects of co-infection on the clinical outcomes of Clostridium difficile infection [PDF]

, 2020
Background: Clostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a spore-forming, Gram-positive rod that is known to be associated with antibiotic use. It is one of the leading causes of nosocomial diarrhea in the industrialized world and therefore warrants further ...
Alturkmani, Hani, Brewer, Joseph, Lodhi, Hafsa, Mittal, Vishal, Shafiq, Muhammad, Ullah, Waqas, Zafar, Yousaf   +6 more
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