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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
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Disparities in PrEP use and unmet need across PEPFAR-supported programs: doubling down on prevention to put people first and end AIDS as a public health threat by 2030

Frontiers in Reproductive Health
BackgroundIn 2023, an estimated 1.3 million people newly acquired HIV. In the same year, 3.5 million individuals received pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), falling short of the UNAIDS target of 21.2 million by 2025.
Trena I. Mukherjee, Mitchell Yep, Megan Koluch, Sisay Alemayehu Abayneh, Gizachew Eyassu, Elizabeth Manfredini, Sara Herbst   +6 more
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Regulatory technology arrangements for hospital bed access during the COVID-19 pandemic: scope review [PDF]

Cadernos de Saúde Pública
: The COVID-19 pandemic posed numerous challenges to health care systems, including hospital bed access. Analyzing the response provided and identifying regulatory technology arrangements that contributed to provide improved health care access can ...
Mariana Prado Freire, Arthur Chioro, Fernando Tureck, Luís Fernando Nogueira Tofani, Letícia Gabriela da Silva, André Luiz Bigal, Amanda da Cruz Santos Vieira, Marília Cristina Prado Louvison   +7 more
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Disease surveillance and patient care in remote regions: an exploratory study of collaboration among healthcare professionals in Amazonia [PDF]

, 2014
The development and deployment of information technology, particularly mobile tools, to support collaboration between different groups of healthcare professionals has been viewed as a promising way to improve disease surveillance and patient care in ...
Cesario, Manuel, Luz, Saturnino, Masoodian, Masood   +2 more
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Assessing Cognitive Functioning in Children With Brain Tumors: Interaction of Neighborhood Social Determinants of Health and Neurological Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background This study investigated how neighborhood‐level social determinants of health (SDOH), including redlining and neurological risk, interact to influence cognitive outcomes in children treated for brain tumors (CTBT). Methods A retrospective chart review of 161 CTBT aged 5–17 was conducted.
Alannah R. Srsich, Manali Zope, Peter M. Fantozzi, Cassie N. Kline, Iris Paltin, Matthew C. Hocking   +5 more
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A scoping review of digital health technologies in multimorbidity management: mechanisms, outcomes, challenges, and strategies

BMC Health Services Research
Introduction Multimorbidity amplifies healthcare burdens due to the intricate requirements of patients and the pathophysiological complexities of multiple diseases.
Aklilu Endalamaw, Anteneh Zewdie, Eskinder Wolka, Yibeltal Assefa   +3 more
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Time Toxicity in Wilms Tumor: Quantifying the Burden of Healthcare Interaction in the First Year After Diagnosis

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Wilms tumor (WT) treatment imposes a significant time burden on patients and their families. Time toxicity is a patient‐centered metric that quantifies the burden of healthcare interaction. We sought to define time toxicity in the first year after diagnosis of WT and hypothesized that it would increase as tumor stage and treatment ...
Caleb Q. Ashbrook, Veerain Gupta, Nicholas J. Clark, Vijay Rings, Lauren E. Corona, Douglass B. Clayton, Daniel J. Benedetti   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Perspectives on Coordinating Health Services for Individuals with Serious Mental Illness – A Qualitative Study

Journal of Multidisciplinary Healthcare, 2022
Jorunn Nærland Skjærpe,1 Inge Joa,1,2 Elisabeth Willumsen,1 Wenche ten Velden Hegelstad,2,3 Tatiana Aleksandrovna Iakovleva,4 Marianne Storm1,5 1Department of Public Health, Faculty of Health Science, University of Stavanger, Stavanger, Norway; 2TIPS ...
Skjærpe JN, Joa I, Willumsen E, Hegelstad WTV, Iakovleva TA, Storm M   +5 more
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Technology and Caregiving: Emerging Interventions and Directions for Research. [PDF]

, 2020
An array of technology-based interventions has increasingly become available to support family caregivers, primarily focusing on health and well-being, social isolation, financial, and psychological support.
Apesoa-Varano, Ester Carolina, Gladstone, Caroline, Kim, Katherine K, Lindeman, David A   +3 more
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The (Glg)ABCs of cyanobacteria: modelling of glycogen synthesis and functional divergence of glycogen synthases in Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
We reconstituted Synechocystis glycogen synthesis in vitro from purified enzymes and showed that two GlgA isoenzymes produce glycogen with different architectures: GlgA1 yields denser, highly branched glycogen, whereas GlgA2 synthesizes longer, less‐branched chains.
Kenric Lee, Dimitrios Bekiari, Sofia Doello, Karl Forchhammer   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source