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Frequency of thyroid function tests and examinations in participants of a population-based study

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background Thyroid disorders are common in the adult German population. Little is known about guideline implementation in clinical practice and the prevalence of diagnostic procedures in ambulatory care.
Simone Kiel, Till Ittermann, Henry Völzke, Jean-François Chenot, Aniela Angelow   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of a Public Health Awareness Campaign on Patients’ Perceptions of Expanded Pharmacy Services in South Dakota Using the Theory of Planned Behavior

Pharmacy, 2022
Background: Pharmacists can offer medication expertise to help better control diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) and improve patient outcomes, particularly in rural communities.
Sharrel Pinto, Christopher Kotschevar, Aaron Hunt, Alex Middendorf, Christopher Robbins, Erin Miller, Deidra Van Gilder   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Community Leadership

, 2012
This paper draws on examples and stories to offer five basic assumptions for a humble model of community leadership. First, community leaders are agents of change.
Evans, Scotney D., Evans, Scotney, Scotney Evans   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Identifying Communities of Practice [PDF]

, 2002
Communities of practice are seen as increasingly important for creating, sharing and applying organisational knowledge. Yet their informal nature makes them difficult to identify and manage. In this paper we set out ONTOCOPI, a system that applies ontology-based network analysis techniques to target the problem of identifying such communities.
Kieron O'Hara, Harith Alani, Nigel Shadbolt   +2 more
openaire   +1 more source

Health‐Related Quality of Life and Symptom Severity Among Patients With PIK3CA‐Related Overgrowth Spectrum: A Mixed‐Methods Study to Understand Real‐World Experience With Alpelisib Treatment

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background PIK3CA‐related overgrowth spectrum (PROS) includes several rare overgrowth disorders resulting from somatic gain‐of‐function mutations in PIK3CA. Despite treatment advances, including the recent approval of alpelisib for PROS in the United States, literature detailing the patient experience with PROS is limited.
Vamsi Bollu, Kaitlin LaGasse, Cory D. Saucier, Kimberly Raymond, Miranda Lauher‐Charest, Lauren Crowder, Beilei Cai, Mary Lisha Paul, Denise Adams   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Summary of proceedings from the launch symposium, discussion, and proposed action plan for the England Centre for Practice Development’s international community of practice for end of life care [PDF]

, 2016
This paper provides a summary of summary of proceedings from the launch symposium, discussion, and proposed action plan for the England Centre for Practice Development’s International Community of Practice for End of Life Care held at The Spitfire ...
The England Centre for Practice Development International Community of Practice for End of Life Care, O'Connor, S.   +1 more
core  

A roadmap of priority evidence gaps for the co-implementation of malaria vaccines and perennial malaria chemoprevention

Malaria Journal
Progress in malaria control will rely on deployment and effective targeting of combinations of interventions, including malaria vaccines and perennial malaria chemoprevention (PMC).
Jane Grant, Perennial Malaria Chemoprevention (PMC) community of practice sub-group on the co-implementation of malaria vaccines and PMC   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Supporting Survivor‐Centered Care Through Digital Health Integration

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Survivors of childhood cancer face barriers to receiving guideline‐based, long‐term follow‐up care. Two digital tools, Passport for Care (PFC) and Cancer SurvivorLink (SurvivorLink), address complementary gaps by enabling tailored survivorship care plan (SCP) generation, updating, storage, and sharing.
Jordan G. Marchak, Rebecca Williamson‐Lewis, Michael O'Connor, Michael Palgon, Yu‐Ra Kim, Michael Schuckenbrock, Paula Edwards, Abraham Mendoza, Anthony Adams, Brian Arriaga‐Solis, Justin Parker, Harry Tinoco‐Giraldo, Jason King, C. Michael Fordis, Karen E. Effinger, Maria Monica Gramatges   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

How Practice-Oriented Research Is Essential for Transformation: The Case of Using Community of Practice as a Method

Social Sciences
Practice-oriented or practice-based research is growing in popularity in the social, built environment and health fields for its important role in driving transformative changes at policy, programme/service and practice levels.
Andrew Holmes, Lisa Stafford, Megan Taylor, David Bailey, Trent Henderson, Matt Novacevski, Akemi Traill   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source