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Educational interventions to improve people’s understanding of key concepts in assessing the effects of health interventions: a systematic review

Systematic Reviews, 2018
Background Health information is readily accessible but is of variable quality. General knowledge about how to assess whether claims about health interventions are trustworthy is not common, so people’s health decisions can be ill-informed, unnecessarily
Leila Cusack, Chris B. Del Mar, Iain Chalmers, Elizabeth Gibson, Tammy C. Hoffmann   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Misperception of Body Weight After Childhood Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Misperception of body weight can negatively impact the weight management efforts of childhood cancer survivors (CCSs). Both being overweight or underweight are associated with chronic health conditions commonly observed in CCS; therefore, accurate weight perception is critical for reducing long‐term health risks.
Fabiën N. Belle, Tomáš Sláma, Eva Haegler‐Laube, Reto D. Kurmann, Gabriela M. Kuster, Christoph Saner, Eva Scheler, Yara Shoman, Christina Schindera   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shared decision making and antibiotic benefit-harm conversations: an observational study of consultations between general practitioners and patients with acute respiratory infections

BMC Family Practice, 2018
Background Little research has examined whether shared decision making (SDM) occurs in consultations for acute respiratory infections (ARIs), including what, and how, antibiotic benefits and harms are discussed.
Mina Bakhit, Chris Del Mar, Elizabeth Gibson, Tammy Hoffmann   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tracking Health Related Quality of Life From Diagnosis to Follow‐Up Among Australian Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is one of the most treatable forms of paediatric cancer; however, there is a substantial burden of treatment‐related toxicities (TRTs). In addition, the long‐term changes in children's health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) due to toxic treatments are not well understood.
Clare Ghows, Clarissa E. Schilstra, Karen McCleary, Nancy E. Briggs, Rishi S. Kotecha, Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Shanti Ramachandran, Ruelleyn Cockcroft, Rachel Conyers, Siobhan Cross, Luciano Dalla‐Pozza, Peter Downie, Tamas Revesz, Michael Osborn, Frank Alvaro, Claire E. Wakefield, Glenn M. Marshall, Toby Trahair, Marion K. Mateos, Joanna E. Fardell   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical, Histopathological, and Molecular Characterization of Pediatric MN1::ZNF341‐Associated Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A lethal round‐cell malignancy with an MN1::ZNF341 fusion has recently been reported in three infants. Here, we describe four further tumors, three in newborns (including monozygotic twins), and one in an adolescent. Detailed clinical, radiological, and histopathological data differentiate these tumors from their main mimics, neuroblastoma and
Thomas R. W. Oliver, Dyanne Rampling, Barbara Walkowiak, Nathaniel D. Anderson, Manas Dave, Henry Lee‐Six, Sadie Baskind, Pooja Balasubramanian, Glenn Anderson, Conor Parks, Toochi Ogbonnah, Emilia R. Robertson, Simon Hannam, Rohan Verma, John C. Achermann, Liina Palm, Neil Sebire, Thomas Jacques, Tom Watson, Carryl Dryden, Karin Straathof, Mette Jorgensen, Olga Slater, Sam Behjati, Sarita Depani, J. Ciaran Hutchinson   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Toxicity of Partial Versus Whole Breast Irradiation: A Systematic Review

Mayo Clinic Proceedings: Innovations, Quality & Outcomes
Objective: To determine if accelerated partial breast irradiation (APBI) is associated with less financial toxicity (financial difficulties that patients experience due to treatment, such as out-of-pocket costs, transportation costs, and time away from ...
Taema Brinjikji, MD, Kimberly S. Corbin, MD, Zhen Wang, PhD, M. Hassan Murad, MD, Dean A. Shumway, MD   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Contribution of Individual Exercise Training Components to Clinical Outcomes in Randomised Controlled Trials of Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Systematic Review and Meta-regression

Sports Medicine - Open, 2017
Background While the clinical benefits of exercise-based cardiac rehabilitation are well established, there is extensive variation in the interventions used within these trials.
Bridget Abell, Paul Glasziou, Tammy Hoffmann   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm of the Pancreas in Children and Adolescents: Expert Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm of the pancreas (SPN) is a rare low‐grade malignant exocrine pancreatic tumor, mostly discovered during the second decade of life in females, with a very good prognosis, provided microscopically complete surgical excision is achieved.
Sabine Irtan, Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almarez, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Maja Cesen, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Louise Galmiche, Jorg Fuchs, Sarah Braungart, Bilgehan Yalcin, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Effects of task shifting from primary care physicians to nurses: a protocol for an overview of systematic reviews

BMJ Open
Introduction Task-shifting from primary care physicians (PCPs) to nurses is one option to better and more efficiently meet the needs of the population in primary care and to overcome PCP shortages. This protocol outlines an overview of systematic reviews
Klaus Jeitler, Thomas Semlitsch, Andrea Siebenhofer, Nicole Posch, Christina Radl-Karimi, Ulrike Spary-Kainz, Muna Paier-Abuzahra   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Oral prednisolone for acute otitis media in children: protocol of a pilot randomised, open-label, controlled study (OPAL study)

Pilot and Feasibility Studies, 2018
Background Acute otitis media (AOM) is an acute inflammation of the middle ear commonly found in children, for which antibiotics are frequently prescribed.
Respati W. Ranakusuma, Amanda R. McCullough, Eka D. Safitri, Yupitri Pitoyo, Widyaningsih, Christopher B. Del Mar, Elaine M. Beller   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source