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The Legislation for Providing Animal Access in Australian Residential Aged Care: It's Not a Zoo

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Providing meaningful animal contact to residential aged care facility (RACF) residents is problematic due to a lack of animal policies and National Guidelines. This paper examines how Australian Legislation could influence access to animal contact in RACFs and aims to answer the question, ‘Could current Legislation facilitate the development ...
Wendy Newton, Tania Signal, Jenni A. Judd   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Understanding Inequality Within a Personalised System of Disability Support: Australian Children With Disabilities' Unmet Support Needs

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disability support has shifted towards models of personalised care, which critics argue may contribute to increased inequalities. There is limited systematic evidence investigating inequalities in support among children with disabilities. To investigate inequalities in support, a survey of parents of children with disabilities aged 2–17 was ...
Martin O'Flaherty, Jessica Hill, Jennifer Smith‐Merry   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Early results of pediatric appendicitis after adoption of diagnosis-related group-based payment system in South Korea

Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2015
Suk-Bae MoonDepartment of Surgery, Kangwon National University Hospital, Kangwon National School of Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chuncheon, South KoreaPurpose: As an alternative to the existing fee-for-service (FFS) system, a diagnosis-related ...
Moon SB
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The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia's Print‐Media Discourse

Australian Journal of Social Issues, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support policy, moving for the first time to a nationwide universal insurance model.
Meera Chinnappa, Jennifer Smith‐Merry, Kuo‐yi Jade Chang   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Appropriate Medical Therapy Primarily Modifies Type 2 and Severity Biomarkers in Chronic Rhinosinusitis

International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Appropriate medical therapy (AMT) is first‐line treatment for patients with chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS). We evaluated inflammatory structure, treatment‐induced changes, and biomarker‐outcome associations in AMT‐managed patients. Methods Fifty‐one CRS patients were evaluated before and after AMT which included a combination of oral ...
Asher C. Park, Brooke N. Gleason, Eli Stein, Saied Ghadersohi, Atsushi Kato, Stephanie Shintani‐Smith, David B. Conley, Kevin C. Welch, Robert C. Kern, Bruce K. Tan   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Uncovering Cystic Fibrosis Carrier: Insights From a Heterozygous CFTR‐F508del Rabbit Model

International Forum of Allergy &Rhinology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Chronic rhinosinusitis (CRS) is a heterogeneous inflammatory disorder frequently associated with impaired mucociliary clearance and bacterial infection. Individuals carrying a single cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mutation exhibit partial CFTR dysfunction and are increasingly recognized as being at risk ...
Do‐Yeon Cho, Alexis E. McFeely, Daniel Skinner, Shaoyan Zhang, Justin Hedvat, Weslee Ping‐ay, Daniel M. Beswick, Justin H. Turner, Bradford A. Woodworth, Jie Xu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shadow education as local education policy: how secretariats of education promote privatisation of test preparation services for the Saber 11 exam in Colombia’s public schools

Education Inquiry
This article investigates how Colombia’s decentralised Secretariats of Education (SoE) institutionalise exam-oriented preparation for Sabre 11, the mandatory upper-secondary exit exam governing higher-education access.
Jorge Celis
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G‐CSF for Mobilizing CD34+ Cells in Individuals With SCD: A Word of Caution

American Journal of Hematology, EarlyView.
Akshay Sharma, Allistair Abraham, Monica Bhatia, María Cancio, Sonali Chaudhury, Selim Corbacioglu, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Ashish O. Gupta, Rabi Hanna, Matthew M. Heeney, Tami John, Lakshmanan Krishnamurti, James L. LaBelle, Hemalatha G. Rangarajan, Shalini Shenoy, Elizabeth Stenger, Crawford Strunk, Courtney D. Fitzhugh   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Individualized Treatment in Distal and Medium Vessel Occlusion Stroke Using a Validated Explainable Counterfactual Treatment Estimation Model

Annals of Neurology, EarlyView.
Objective The optimal treatment for distal medium vessel occlusion (DMVO) stroke remains uncertain, and evidence comparing endovascular therapy (EVT) with medical management (MM) is limited. We aimed to develop and validate a predictive modeling tool to assess individual treatment benefit in DMVO stroke using explainable counterfactual treatment ...
Mohamed F. Doheim, Mahmoud H. Mohammaden, Hend Abdelhamid, Marta Olive‐Gadea, Marc Rodrigo‐Gisbert, Manuel Requena, Johanna T. Fifi, James E. Siegler, Santiago Ortega‐Gutierrez, Mohamad Abdalkader, Ali Alaraj, Wei Hu, Thanh N. Nguyen, Diogo C. Haussen, Raul G. Nogueira   +14 more
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Rising Inpatient Demands for Inherited Metabolic Disorders: Impact on Pediatric Capacity

American Journal of Medical Genetics Part A, EarlyView.
Maria Paula Silva, Kirsten Havens, Katherine Arduini, Anne Kozek, Erika Vucko, Joel Charrow, Joshua Baker, Carlos E. Prada   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source