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Does higher quality of diabetes management in family practice reduce unplanned hospital admissions?

Health Services Research, 2011
OBJECTIVE To investigate the association between indicators of quality of diabetic management in English family practices and emergency hospital admissions for short-term complications of diabetes.
M. Dusheiko, T. Doran, H. Gravelle, C. Fullwood, M. Roland   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Circulating tumor cells: advancing personalized therapy in small cell lung cancer patients

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is an aggressive form of lung cancer that spreads rapidly to secondary sites such as the brain and liver. Cancer cells circulating in the blood, “circulating tumor cells” (CTCs), have demonstrated prognostic value in SCLC, and evaluating biomarkers on CTCs could guide treatment decisions such as for PARP inhibitors ...
Prajwol Shrestha, Steven Kao, Veronica K. Cheung, Wendy A. Cooper, Nico van Zandwijk, John E. J. Rasko, Dannel Yeo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

I felt so much conflict instead of joy: an analysis of open-ended comments from people in British Columbia who declined care recommendations during pregnancy and childbirth

Reproductive Health, 2021
Background No Canadian studies to date have examined the experiences of people who decline aspects of care during pregnancy and birth. The current analysis bridges this gap by describing comments from 1123 people in British Columbia (BC) who declined a ...
Kathrin Stoll, Jessie J. Wang, Paulomi Niles, Lindsay Wells, Saraswathi Vedam   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Reparameterized Variational Rejection Sampling [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Traditional approaches to variational inference rely on parametric families of variational distributions, with the choice of family playing a critical role in determining the accuracy of the resulting posterior approximation. Simple mean-field families often lead to poor approximations, while rich families of distributions like normalizing flows can be
arxiv  

Academic family practice [PDF]

Family Practice, 2003
In many countries, the imperatives of service delivery, the constraints of shrinking resources and the increasing demands of a well-informed yet frequently risk-taking population conspire to threaten the viability of clinical academic medicine. In many countries, Academies are looking hard at ways of making clinical academic careers more appealing and ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Strengthening Family Practices for Latino Families [PDF]

Journal of Ethnic And Cultural Diversity in Social Work, 2010
The study examined the effectiveness of a culturally-adapted Strengthening Families Program (SFP) for Latinos to reduce risks for alcohol and drug use in children. Latino families, predominantly Puerto Rican, with a 9-12 year old child and a parent(s) with a substance abuse problem participated in the study. Pre- and post-tests were conducted with each
Chartier, Karen G., Negroni, Lirio K., Hesselbrock, Michie N.   +2 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Acute non-traumatic hip pathology in children: incidence and presentation in family practice.

Family Practice, 2010
BACKGROUND The differential diagnosis of children with acute non-traumatic hip pathology varies from quite harmless conditions such as transient synovitis of the hip to more severe problems like Perthes' disease, slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE ...
M. Krul, J. C. van der Wouden, F. Schellevis, L. V. van Suijlekom-Smit, B. Koes   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cell‐free and extracellular vesicle microRNAs with clinical utility for solid tumors

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Cell‐free microRNAs (cfmiRs) are small‐RNA circulating molecules detectable in almost all body biofluids. Innovative technologies have improved the application of cfmiRs to oncology, with a focus on clinical needs for different solid tumors, but with emphasis on diagnosis, prognosis, cancer recurrence, as well as treatment monitoring.
Yoshinori Hayashi, Janelle‐Cheri Millen, Romela Irene Ramos, Jennifer A. Linehan, Timothy G. Wilson, Dave S. B. Hoon, Matias A. Bustos   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

German general practitioners’ self-reported management of patients with chronic depression

BMC Psychiatry, 2017
Background Patients with chronic depression (persisting symptoms for ≥2 years) are a clinically relevant group with extensive (co)morbidity, high functional impairment and associated costs in primary care. The General Practitioner (GP) is the main health
Florian Wolf, Antje Freytag, Sven Schulz, Thomas Lehmann, Susann Schaffer, Horst Christian Vollmar, Thomas Kühlein, Jochen Gensichen   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Can Online MBA Programs Allow Professional Working Mothers to Balance Work, Family, and Career Progression? A Case Study in China [PDF]

, 2014
Career progression is a general concern of professional working mothers in China. The purpose of this paper is to report a qualitative study of Chinese professional working mothers that explored the perceptions of online Master's of Business Administration (MBA) programmes as a tool for career progression for working mothers balancing work and family ...
arxiv   +1 more source