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Alveolar Soft Part Sarcoma in Pediatric and Young Adult Patients: A Report From the Children's Oncology Group Study ARST0332

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Alveolar soft part sarcoma (ASPS) is a rare soft tissue sarcoma occurring most commonly in adolescence and young adulthood. Methods We present the clinical characteristics, treatments, and outcomes of patients with newly diagnosed ASPS enrolled on the Children's Oncology Group study ARST0332.
Jacquelyn N. Crane, Wei Xue, Amira Qumseya, Thomas Scharschmidt, Kathryn R. Tringale, Oscar Lopez Nunez, Jiaqi Hu, Donald A. Barkauskas, Rajkumar Venkatramani, Sheri L. Spunt, Aaron R. Weiss, Noah C. Federman   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Record linkage studies of drug-related deaths among former adult prisoners who have been released to the community: a scoping review protocol

BMJ Open, 2022
Introduction Prisoners often have a complex mix of health and care needs including needs relating to mental and physical ill-health conditions. In addition, substance use disorders are common in prisoners.
Michael Donnelly, Richard Kirk, Dermot O'Reilly, Janine A Cooper, Ifeoma Onyeka   +4 more
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Administrative Data Linkage in Brazil: Potentials for Health Technology Assessment [PDF]

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2019
Health technology assessment (HTA) is the systematic evaluation of the properties and impacts of health technologies and interventions. In this article, we presented a discussion of HTA and its evolution in Brazil, as well as a description of secondary data sources available in Brazil with potential applications to generate evidence for HTA and policy ...
M Sanni Ali, M Sanni Ali, M Sanni Ali, Maria Yury Ichihara, Maria Yury Ichihara, Luciane Cruz Lopes, George C.G. Barbosa, Robespierre Pita, Roberto Perez Carreiro, Djanilson Barbosa dos Santos, Dandara Ramos, Nivea Bispo, Fabiana Raynal, Vania Canuto, Bethania de Araujo Almeida, Rosemeire L. Fiaccone, Rosemeire L. Fiaccone, Rosemeire L. Fiaccone, Marcos E. Barreto, Marcos E. Barreto, Marcos E. Barreto, Liam Smeeth, Liam Smeeth, Mauricio L. Barreto, Mauricio L. Barreto   +24 more
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Does self-assessed health measure health? [PDF]

, 2015
Despite concerns about reporting biases and interpretation, self-assessed health (SAH) remains the measure of health most used by researchers, in part reflecting its ease of collection and in part the observed correlation between SAH and objective ...
Doiron, D., Fiebig, D. G., Johar, M., Suziedelyte, A.   +3 more
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The Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS)

International Journal of Population Data Science, 2019
The Center for Data and Knowledge Integration for Health (CIDACS) was created in 2016 in Salvador (Bahia, Brazil). This paper aims to present a profile of CIDACS, including its current databases.
Bethania de Araujo Almeida, Mauricio Lima Barreto, Maria Yuri Ichihara, Marcos Ennes Barreto, Liliana Cabral, Rosemeire Fiaccone, Roberto P Carreiro, Carlos Teles, Robespierre Pita, Gerson Penna, Manoel Barral-Netto, M. Sanni Ali, George Barbosa, Spiros Denaxas, Laura Rodrigues, Liam Smeeth   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Imputing race and ethnic information in administrative health data

Health Services Research, 2019
AbstractObjectiveTo improve on existing methods to infer race/ethnicity in health care data through an analysis of birth records from Connecticut.Data SourceA total of 162 467 Connecticut birth records from 2009 to 2013.Study DesignWe developed a logistic model to predict race/ethnicity using data fromUSCensus and patient‐level information.
Yishu Xue, Ofer Harel, Robert H. Aseltine   +2 more
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Implementing Health‐Related Quality of Life Assessment in Pediatric Oncology: A Feasibility Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background There is growing interest in embedding health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) assessment and patient‐reported outcome measures (PROMs) within clinical cancer care. This study evaluated the feasibility, acceptability, and usability of implementing an electronic PROM (ePROM) platform to measure HRQoL in children with cancer ...
Mikaela Doig, Sophie Jessop, Jordan R. Hansford, Hien Le, Matthew O'Connor, Peter Gorayski, Andrew Cunningham, Amanda Hutchinson, Victoria Bedford, Eva Bezak, Nayana Parange, Kelly Skelton, Timothy Price, Michala Short   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying the incidence of lower limb amputation in people with and without diabetes in Wales between 2008–2018

Diabetes Epidemiology and Management, 2023
Background: There is variance in the incidence of lower extremity amputation across and within countries including within the UK. National data shows up to a fourfold variance in the amputation rate throughout the regions of England and differences in ...
J Hayes, JM Rafferty, WY Cheung, A Akbari, R Thomas, S Bain, C Topliss, JW Stephens   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Measuring disability [PDF]

, 2017
Housing policy researchers studying the intersection of housing and disability must understand the relative strengths and limitations of the various types of administrative and survey data that can be used to identify persons with disabilities.
Brucker, Debra L., Helms, Veronica
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Psychological Costs of Migration: Home Country Natural Disasters and Mental Health [PDF]

, 2020
The psychological toll of leaving one's familiar environment is a dominant explanation for why some people do not migrate despite relatively high wage differentials and low monetary costs of moving.
Bharadwaj, P., Doiron, D., Fiebig, D. G., Suziedelyte, A.   +3 more
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