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Lone parents and informal childcare: A tax credit childcare subsidy? [PDF]

, 2006
The Labour government aims to increase the lone parent employment rate to 70 per cent by 2010. To achieve this aim, it has introduced a state subsidy for childcare in the form of the childcare element of the Working Tax Credit.
Finch, Naomi, Skinner, Christine
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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
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The Pregnancy Project: Impact of Ultrasound Use During Pregnancy Care [PDF]

, 2012
Use of ultrasounds during pregnancy continues to increase and there is much debate as to what the best practice is regarding their use, for what types of patients, at what volume level.
Ricci, Paige
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Evaluating an extended rehabilitation service for stroke patients (EXTRAS): study protocol for a randomised controlled trial [PDF]

, 2015
Background: Development of longer term stroke rehabilitation services is limited by lack of evidence of effectiveness for specific interventions and service models.
Cant, Robin, Drummond, Avril, Ford, Gary, Forster, Anne, Hills, Katie, Howel, Denise, Laverty, Anne-Marie, McKevitt, Christopher, McMeekin, Peter, Price, Christopher, Rodgers, Helen, Shaw, Lisa   +11 more
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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
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Defining successful program configurations in VA home-based primary care: a study protocol to identify key difference-makers through investigating cross-case heterogeneity in program implementation

BMC Geriatrics
Background The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is the largest integrated healthcare system in the United States and serves a rapidly aging patient population.
Anaïs Tuepker, Edward J. Miech, Elizabeth C. Hulen, Meike Niederhausen, Catherine S. Hwang, Bruce Kinosian, Allison O’Neill, Senta G. Wiederholt, Chandra Penn, Dayna Cooper, Samuel T. Edwards   +10 more
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Extending the Use of Games in Health Care [PDF]

Proceedings of the 39th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS'06), 2006
Digital games have the ability to engage both children and adults alike. We are exploring the use of games for children with long term treatment regimes, where motivation for compliance is a key factor in the success of the treatment. In this paper, we describe the game framework we are building for this purpose.
C. Watters, S. Oore, M. Shepherd, A. Abouzied, A. Cox, M. Kellar, H. Kharrazi, null Fengan Liu, A. Otley   +8 more
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The Fate (Outcome) of Clinically Apparent Single Lesion and Oligofocal Nephroblastomatosis Treated According to SIOP/GPOH Protocols for Wilms Tumor

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background The management of clinically apparent single lesions or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis, a facultative precursor of nephroblastoma, remains debated. Methods We retrospectively analyzed 37 patients with clinically apparent single or oligofocal nephroblastomatosis (two to three lesions per kidney) among 2347 patients registered between
Nils Welter, Jens‐Peter Schenk, Jenny Wegert, Manfred Gessler, Leo Kager, Stefan Wagenpfeil, Marina Müller, Jean‐Michel Wolff, Joerg Fuchs, Steven W. Warmann, Clemens‐Magnus Meier, Jochen Hubertus, Christian Rübe, Christian Vokuhl, Patrick Melchior, Lena Tschirner, Norbert Graf, Rhoikos Furtwängler   +17 more
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Germline TP53 Mutations Causing Diamond–Blackfan Anemia: A French Report

Pediatric 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, Lydie Da Costa, Ludivine David Nguyen, Heloise Chosseler, Audrey Riquet, Benedicte Bruno, Melissa Barbati   +6 more
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Youth who "Age Out" of Foster Care: Troubled Lives, Troubling Prospects [PDF]

, 2001
If foster children, in general, are a population at risk, youth who age out of the system may be even more so. Research suggests that without the extended support most families provide young people in the transition to adulthood, youth leaving foster ...
Richard Wertheimer
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