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Health Literacy, Self‐Efficacy and Knowledge of Sickle Cell Disease Among Caregivers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a hereditary blood disorder in which abnormal haemoglobin leads to severe anaemia, painful crises and organ failure. Caregivers’ health literacy (HL) – their ability to assess, understand and apply information, and interact with healthcare professionals – is crucial for managing children with SCD, yet ...
Melanie Bruinooge, Maite E. Houwing, Rowena L. Grohssteiner, Ferdows Atiq, Sonja A. M. C. Teuben, Mirjam P. Fransen, Marjon H. Cnossen   +6 more
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Building a culture of suicide prevention and care: Implementation of an evidence-based guideline of the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario in a Chilean occupational hospital

International Journal of Nursing Sciences
Objectives: We aimed to describe the implementation process and provide a baseline characterization of suicidal behavior during the first year of implementing the Registered Nurses’ Association of Ontario (RNAO) Best Practice Guideline (BPG) for suicide ...
Daniela Godoy, Pamela Vidal, Francisca Abarca, Javiera Peña   +3 more
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Developing evidence-based maternity care in Iran: a quality improvement study

BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2008
Background Current Iranian perinatal statistics indicate that maternity care continues to need improvement. In response, we implemented a multi-faceted intervention to improve the quality of maternity care at an Iranian Social Security Hospital.
Mohammad Kazem, Lameei Aboulfath, Akbari Feizollah, Aghlmand Siamak, Small Rhonda, Arab Mohammad   +5 more
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A Quality Improvement Project to Improve Evidence-Based Inhaled Nitric Oxide Use [PDF]

Respiratory Care, 2017
BACKGROUND: Inhaled nitric oxide (INO) reduces extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) use in term and near-term neonates with persistent pulmonary hypertension of the newborn; however, its overutilization is increasing.
Colleen A, Hughes Driscoll, Natalie L, Davis, Megan, Miles, Dina, El-Metwally   +3 more
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Early Impact of Childhood Opportunity on Neurocognitive Outcomes in Sickle Cell Disease

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Neurocognitive impairment is a well‐recognized complication of sickle cell disease (SCD) that begins early in childhood and persists across development. While cerebrovascular injury contributes substantially to risk, neurocognitive deficits are also observed in children without overt or silent cerebral infarctions, suggesting ...
Julia E. LaMotte, Hannah Koch, Olivia A. Coughlin, Jillian R. Bouck, Allie Carter, Seethal A. Jacob   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nutritional status, dental caries and tooth eruption in children: a longitudinal study in Cambodia, Indonesia and Lao PDR

BMC Pediatrics, 2018
Background Untreated dental caries is reported to affect children’s nutritional status and growth, yet evidence on this relationship is conflicting.
Jed Dimaisip-Nabuab, Denise Duijster, Habib Benzian, Roswitha Heinrich-Weltzien, Amphayvan Homsavath, Bella Monse, Hak Sithan, Nicole Stauf, Sri Susilawati, Katrin Kromeyer-Hauschild   +9 more
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Psychosocial Functioning After Pediatric Bone Sarcoma: Generic and Survivor‐Specific Outcomes in Adolescent and Young Adult Patients

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric bone sarcoma patients and survivors may experience psychosocial challenges related to childhood cancer after their intensive, body‐altering treatment. This cross‐sectional study aimed to evaluate generic and survivor‐specific psychosocial outcomes in a national cohort of pediatric bone sarcoma patients and survivors, and ...
Hinke van der Hoek, Heleen Maurice‐Stam, Laura R. Beek, Jennifer van Dijk, Marjolein E. M. Langemeijer, Relinde W. Slooff‐Lentink, Alied M. van der Aa‐van Delden, Anne Westerweel, Marloes van Gorp, Hendrik W. B. Schreuder, Lianne M. Haveman, W. Peter Bekkering, Leonie G. Tigelaar, Johannes H. M. Merks, Martha A. Grootenhuis   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Standardized nutritional screening and assessment for nasopharyngeal cancer patients: an evidence-based implementation project

BMC Nursing
Introduction Radiotherapy for nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) frequently induces malnutrition, which is a serious complication that adversely affects patients’ quality of life and prognosis.
Wenwen Cai, Rufei Yang, Chao Tang, Yueyao Cao, Jing Li, Jinmei Huang, Yalan Song   +6 more
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Improving the quality of care for people who had a stroke in a low‐/middle‐income country: A qualitative analysis of health‐care professionals’ perspectives

Health Expectations, 2020
Background and Objective Efforts to improve the adoption of evidence‐based interventions for optimal patient outcomes in low‐/middle‐income countries (LMICs) are persistently hampered by a plethora of barriers.
Leonard Baatiema, Ama de‐Graft Aikins, Fred S. Sarfo, Seye Abimbola, John K. Ganle, Shawn Somerset   +5 more
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Evidence-based healthcare and quality improvement.

Quality in primary care, 2014
This is the tenth in a series of articles about the science of quality improvement. We explore how evidence-based healthcare relates to quality improvement, implementation science and the translation of evidence to improve healthcare practice and patient outcomes.
Steve, Gillam, A Niroshan, Siriwardena
openaire   +1 more source