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Pediatric Oncology Nursing Competencies in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Scoping Review to Inform Practice, Education, and Research

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Nurses are central to cancer care for children and adolescents, yet no comprehensive synthesis has defined essential core competencies for pediatric oncology nursing (PON) practice internationally, particularly in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC).
Luís Carlos Lopes‐Júnior, Edmara Bazoni Soares Maia, Soad Fuentes‐Alabí, Courtney E. Sullivan, Monnie Abraham, Mauricio Maza, Liliana Vásquez Ponce, Regina Aparecida Garcia Lima   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Decision threshold models in medical decision making: a scoping literature review

BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making
Background Decision thresholds play important role in medical decision-making. Individual decision-making differences may be attributable to differences in subjective judgments or cognitive processes that are captured through the decision thresholds ...
Andrew Scarffe, Alison Coates, Kevin Brand, Wojtek Michalowski   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

NRASQ61R Expression in Lymphatic Endothelial Cells Causes Enlarged Vessels, Hemorrhagic Chylous Effusions, and High Mortality in a Mouse Model of Kaposiform Lymphangiomatosis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Kaposiform lymphangiomatosis (KLA) is an aggressive complex lymphatic anomaly. Patients exhibit malformed lymphatic vessels and often develop hemorrhagic effusions and elevated angiopoietin‐2 (Ang‐2) levels. A somatic NRAS p.Q61R (NRASQ61R) mutation has been associated with KLA.
C. Griffin McDaniel, Patricia Pastura, Joshua P. Scallan, Timothy D. Le Cras   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

HIV treatment as prevention : models, data, and questions-towards evidence-based decision-making [PDF]

, 2012
Antiretroviral therapy (ART) for those infected with HIV can prevent onward transmission of infection, but biological efficacy alone is not enough to guide policy decisions about the role of ART in reducing HIV incidence.
Delva, Wim, HIV Modelling Consortium Treatment as Prevention Editorial Writing Group, The   +1 more
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Theoretical foundations of human decision-making in agent-based land use models - A review

Environmental Modelling & Software, 2017
Recent reviews stated that the complex and context-dependent nature of human decision-making resulted in ad-hoc representations of human decision in agent-based land use change models (LUCC ABMs) and that these representations are often not explicitly ...
J. Groeneveld, B. Müller, C. M. Buchmann, G. Dressler, C. Guo, N. Hase, Falk Hoffmann, F. John, C. Klassert, T. Lauf, V. Liebelt, Henning Nolzen, N. Pannicke, Jule Schulze, Hanna Weise, N. Schwarz   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Pulmonary Dysfunction Is Associated With Sleep Study Abnormalities in Children With Sickle Cell Disease: A Multicenter Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Pulmonary dysfunction and sleep abnormalities are common in children with sickle cell disease (SCD) and are associated with worse clinical outcomes. Whether spirometry abnormalities are associated with polysomnography (PSG) findings remains unclear.
Ammar Saadoon Alishlash, Anis Rabbani Nourani, A. K. M. Fazlur Rahman, Dima Ezmigna, Tarig Ali‐Dinar   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

von Neumann-Morgenstern and Savage Theorems for Causal Decision Making

, 2021
Causal thinking and decision making under uncertainty are fundamental aspects of intelligent reasoning. Decision making under uncertainty has been well studied when information is considered at the associative (probabilistic) level.
Escalante, Hugo J., Gonzalez-Soto, Mauricio, Sucar, L. Enrique   +2 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Reflections of Practicing School Principals on Ethical Leadership and Decision-Making: Confronting Social Injustice [PDF]

, 2015
The study objective was to identify leadership dilemmas of practicing school administrators and their own codes of ethics to inform understandings of ethical decision-making. Ethical decision-making underpins leadership practice, theory, and preparation.
Gardiner, Mary E., Tenuto, Penny L.
core   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source