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Enhancing Foster Care Home NGO Sustainability via Social Franchising

Management, 2020
Research Question: This paper investigates how the social franchising approach may enhance the sustainability and capability of Foster Home NGOs in the Global South.
Catherine T. Kwantes, Siddardh Thirumangai Alwar, Stephanie J. Cragg, Magali Feola   +3 more
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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 Professionalisation of Foster Care in Norway

Social Inclusion
In Norway, as elsewhere, child welfare services have long prioritised placing children in foster homes over residential care when children cannot live with their parents, to ensure upbringing in family settings.
Renee Thørnblad, Jeanette Skoglund
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PSYCHO-EMOTIONAL STRESS IN PROFESSIONAL FOSTER CARERS IN GABROVO REGION, BULGARIA [PDF]

Journal of IMAB
One of the challenges in providing foster care services is the psycho-emotional stress that foster parents experience. The aim of the present study is to explore the risk factors increasing the levels of psycho-emotional stress and burnout in foster ...
Dimitrina Grigorova-Stoilova, Tsvetelina Tarpomanova, Teodora Dimitrova   +2 more
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‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
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High-level psychotropic polypharmacy: a retrospective comparison of children in foster care to their peers on Medicaid

BMC Psychiatry, 2021
Background The use of antipsychotic medication and psychotropic polypharmacy has increased in the United States over the last two decades especially for children from low-income families and those in foster care.
Deborah Winders Davis, W. David Lohr, Yana Feygin, Liza Creel, Kahir Jawad, V. Faye Jones, P. Gail Williams, Jennifer Le, Marie Trace, Natalie Pasquenza   +9 more
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Defining Roles in Pediatric Palliative Care: Perspectives From Oncology and Palliative Care Teams

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Early integration of pediatric palliative care (PPC) is associated with improved symptom management, quality of life, and healthcare utilization for children with cancer. Despite this, variation persists in how PPC is understood, operationalized, and integrated within pediatric oncology programs. In particular, ambiguity surrounding
Leeat Granek, Lori Wiener, Stephanie Veldhuijzen van Zanten, Donna Johnston, Fyeza Hasan, Adam Rapoport, Nathasha Datoo, Kimberley Widger, Sumit Gupta, Karen Fergus, Anthony K. C. Chan, Alisha Kassam, Emily McCullogh, Dave Lysecki   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluation of a national surveillance system for mortality alerts: a mixed-methods study

Health Services and Delivery Research, 2018
Background: Since 2007, Imperial College London has generated monthly mortality alerts, based on statistical process control charts and using routinely collected hospital administrative data, for all English acute NHS hospital trusts.
Paul Aylin, Alex Bottle, Susan Burnett, Elizabeth Cecil, Kathryn L Charles, Paul Dawson, Danielle D’Lima, Aneez Esmail, Charles Vincent, Samantha Wilkinson, Jonathan Benn   +10 more
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PARP inhibition and pharmacological ascorbate demonstrate synergy in castration‐resistant prostate cancer

Molecular Oncology, EarlyView.
Pharmacologic ascorbate (vitamin C) increases ROS, disrupts cellular metabolism, and induces DNA damage in CRPC cells. These effects sensitize tumors to PARP inhibition, producing synergistic growth suppression with olaparib in vitro and significantly delayed tumor progression in vivo. Pyruvate rescue confirms ROS‐dependent activity.
Nicolas Gordon, Peter T. Gallagher, Orly I. Richter, Neermala Poudel Neupane, Amy C. Mandigo, Jennifer J. McCann, Emanuela Dylgjeri, Irina Vasilevskaya, Christopher McNair, Channing J. Paller, Wm. Kevin Kelly, Karen E. Knudsen, Matthew J. Schiewer, Ayesha A. Shafi   +13 more
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Achieving good outcomes in foster care: a personal perspective on research across contexts and cultures.

Social Work and Society, 2017
This paper presents a brief synthesis of learning from recently published European foster care research, focussing especially on papers given at the 2015 Siegen foster care research conference.
June Thoburn
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