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Evaluating Person-Centred Integrated Care to People with Complex Chronic Conditions: Early Implementation Results of the ProPCC Programme

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2023
Introduction: The evaluation of integrated care programmes for high-need high-cost older people is a challenge. We aim to share the early implementation results of the ProPCC programme in the North-Barcelona metropolitan area, in Catalonia, Spain ...
Miquel À. Mas, Ramón Miralles, Maria J. Ulldemolins, Ria Gracia, Sònia Gràcia, Josep M. Picaza, Mercedes Navarro Fernández, Maria A. Rocabayera, Montserrat Rivera, Núria Relaño, Mireia Torres Asensio, Pilar Laporta, Celia Morcillo, Laura Nadal, Ramona Hervás, Dolors Fuguet, Cristina Alba, Núria Miralles Banqué, Sònia Jiménez Panés, Miriam Moreno Moreno, Carmen Nogueras, Helena Manjón Navarro, Rosa López, Guillem Hernández, Francesc López-Seguí, Laura Ricou Ríos, Arnau Pons, Núria Prat, Jordi Ara Del Rey, Oriol Estrada   +29 more
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Early Body Mass Index z‐Score Change and Resolution of Severe Malnutrition in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia in a Low‐Income Setting: A Prospective Single‐Arm Extension Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo, Shehu Umar Abdullahi, Hassan Adam Murtala, Halima Kabir, Khadija A. Shamsu, Sari A. Acra, Virginia A. Stallings, Mark Rodeghier, Michael R. DeBaun, Lauren J. Klein   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Psychology can be indispensable to health care reform and the patient-centered medical home

, 2019
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) was passed into legislation in March 2010, making health care reform a reality. Perhaps the most well-developed model of primary care that aligns with the PPACA's agenda is the patient-centered ...
Runyan, Christine N.
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Care coordination of multimorbidity: a scoping study [PDF]

, 2015
Background: A key challenge in healthcare systems worldwide is the large number of patients who suffer from multimorbidity; despite this, most systems are organized within a single-disease framework. Objective: The present study addresses two issues: the
Burau, Viola, Doessing, Anne, Anne Doessing, Viola Burau   +3 more
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Do ‘Virtual Wards’ reduce rates of unplanned hospital admissions and at what cost? A research protocol using propensity matched controls

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2011
Background: This retrospective study will assess the extent to which multidisciplinary case management in the form of virtual wards (VWs) leads to changes in the use of health care and social care by patients at high risk of future unplanned hospital ...
Geraint Hywel Lewis, Martin Bardsley, Rhema Vaithianathan, Adam Steventon, Theo Georghiou, John Billings, Jennifer Dixon   +6 more
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Project INTEGRATE: Developing a Framework to Guide Design, Implementation and Evaluation of People-centred Integrated Care Processes

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Background: People-centred integrated care is an acknowledged approach to improve the quality and effectiveness of health systems in delivering care around people’s needs and preferences.
Lucinda Cash-Gibson, Olena Tigova, Albert Alonso, George Binkley, Magda Rosenmöller   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Integrated stepped alcohol treatment for patients with HIV and at-risk alcohol use: a randomized trial

Addiction Science & Clinical Practice, 2020
Background At-risk levels of alcohol use threaten the health of patients with HIV (PWH), yet evidence-based strategies to decrease alcohol use and improve HIV-related outcomes in this population are lacking.
E. Jennifer Edelman, Stephen A. Maisto, Nathan B. Hansen, Christopher J. Cutter, James Dziura, Yanhong Deng, Lynn E. Fiellin, Patrick G. O’Connor, Roger Bedimo, Cynthia L. Gibert, Vincent C. Marconi, David Rimland, Maria C. Rodriguez-Barradas, Michael S. Simberkoff, Janet P. Tate, Amy C. Justice, Kendall J. Bryant, David A. Fiellin   +17 more
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Central Nervous System Tumors Among Infants in Canada: A Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) tumors in infants are rare, pose unique clinical challenges, and lack large‐scale evidence‐based data to guide management. This study seeks to describe CNS tumors in Canadian infants and to compare their outcomes with those of older children.
Samuel Sassine, Hallie Coltin, Sylvia Cheng, Lucie Lafay‐Cousin, Vanan Issai Magimairajan, Craig Erker, Stéphanie Vairy, Lynette Bowes, Adam Fleming, Donna Johnston, Sarah McKillop, Roona Sinha, Julie Bennett, Christina Coleman, Laura Wheaton, Shayna Zelcer, Samuele Renzi, Thai Hoa Tran   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inequalities in public health care delivery in Zambia [PDF]

, 2014
Background: Access to adequate health services that is of acceptable quality is important in the move towards universal health coverage. However, previous studies have revealed inequities in health care utilisation in the favour of the rich.
Phiri, Jane, Jane Phiri, Ataguba, John E, John E Ataguba   +3 more
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Impact of Radiation Therapy on Physical and Psychosocial Health of Adolescents and Young Adults: A Joint Report From the Children's Oncology Group AYA and Radiation Oncology Committees

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rates of cancer among adolescents and young adults (AYA), age 15–39 years, are increasing. Consequently, radiation oncologists are treating more AYAs who have diagnoses spanning both pediatric and adult practices. Compared to pediatric and older adult patients, AYAs face a unique set of challenges.
Hesham Elhalawani, Rachel K. Peterson, Avani D. Rao, Laurie J. McKenzie, Ahmed Magdy Elmotayam, Leslie Chang, Michael Roth, Susan L. McGovern   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source