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The Skin—A Common Pathway for Integrating Diagnosis and Management of NTDs

open access: yesTropical Medicine and Infectious Disease, 2018
Many of the neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) have major skin manifestations. These skin-related NTDs or ‘skin NTDs’ cause significant morbidity and economic hardship in some of the poorest communities worldwide.
David John Chandler   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Introductory Framework for Choosing Spatiotemporal Analytical Tools in Population-Level Eco-Epidemiological Research

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2020
Spatiotemporal visualization and analytical tools (SATs) are increasingly being applied to risk-based surveillance/monitoring of adverse health events affecting humans, animals, and ecosystems.
Kaushi S. T. Kanankege   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Approximating Cross-validatory Predictive P-values with Integrated IS for Disease Mapping Models

open access: yes, 2016
An important statistical task in disease mapping problems is to identify out- lier/divergent regions with unusually high or low residual risk of disease.
Feng, Cindy X., Li, Longhai, Qiu, Shi
core   +1 more source

Germline TP53 Mutations Causing Diamond–Blackfan Anemia: A French Report

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Diamond–Blackfan anemia is a rare congenital erythroblastopenia typically caused by mutations in ribosomal protein genes. Recently, gain‐of‐function mutations in TP53 have been identified as a novel cause of Diamond–Blackfan anemia. We report two French patients who both harbored a heterozygous TP53 deletion (NM_000546.5: c.1077delA; p ...
Rafael Moisan   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mapping Disease Data: A Usability Test of an Internet-Based System of Disease Status Disclosure

open access: yesFrontiers in Veterinary Science, 2018
Disease maps are important tools in the management of disease. By communicating risk, disease maps can help raise awareness of disease and encourage farmers and veterinarians to employ best practice to eliminate the spread of disease.
Gareth Enticott   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams

open access: yesPediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Updates to the zoonotic niche map of Ebola virus disease in Africa

open access: yeseLife, 2016
As the outbreak of Ebola virus disease (EVD) in West Africa is now contained, attention is turning from control to future outbreak prediction and prevention.
David M Pigott   +13 more
doaj   +1 more source

Disease Trajectory Maps

open access: yes, 2016
Medical researchers are coming to appreciate that many diseases are in fact complex, heterogeneous syndromes composed of subpopulations that express different variants of a related complication. Time series data extracted from individual electronic health records (EHR) offer an exciting new way to study subtle differences in the way these diseases ...
Schulam, Peter, Arora, Raman
openaire   +2 more sources

Disease Localization in Multilayer Networks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We present a continuous formulation of epidemic spreading on multilayer networks using a tensorial representation, extending the models of monoplex networks to this context.
Cozzo, Emanuele   +4 more
core   +4 more sources

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