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A Call for Change: The 2011 Commonwealth Fund Survey of Public Views of the U.S. Health System [PDF]

, 2011
Presents survey findings about the public's experiences with access to health care, care coordination, cost and administrative burdens, and health services delivery; their concerns; and priorities for system reform by income, insurance status, and ...
Ashley-Kay Fryer, Cathy Schoen, Kristof Stremikis   +2 more
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Technology adoption in health care: International barriers and opportunities to telemedicine [PDF]

, 2014
Although telemedicine and telehealth are seen as discrete entities by some authors, both The Cochrane Library (2010) and the WHO (2009) acknowledge that definitions overlap.
Carter, Bernie
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Prevalence and Trajectory of Household Material Hardship Among Children With Advanced Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background/Objectives Families of children with advanced cancer living in poverty experience inferior outcomes including poor parent mental health and worse child quality of life. Household material hardship (HMH: food, housing, transportation, and/or utility insecurity) is a modifiable poverty exposure—and potential intervention target—that ...
Sarah Wright, Morgan A. Paul, Selena Murcia Mendez, Emily Jones, Lucille Lokko, Chelsea Heneghan, Nicholas Purol, Morgan Arnold, Rahela Aziz‐Bose, Colleen A. Kelly, Sandi L. Pruitt, Joanne Wolfe, Kira Bona, Puja J. Umaretiya   +13 more
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Barriers to Integrating Tobacco Dependence Treatment into Lung Cancer Screening: A Qualitative Assessment

Journal of Primary Care & Community Health
Introduction/objective: We qualitatively assessed current practices and perceived barriers surrounding the integration of tobacco dependence treatment (TDT) into lung cancer screening (LCS).
Deborah L. Pestka, Megan E. Campbell, Naomi A. Schmulewitz, Anne C. Melzer   +3 more
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Changes in perinatal management and outcomes of extremely preterm infants born below 26 weeks of gestation in a tertiary referral hospital in Sweden: Comparison between 2004–2007 and 2012–2016

Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica, 2023
Introduction Perinatal management of extremely preterm births in Sweden has changed toward active care from 22–23 gestational weeks during the last decades. However, considerable regional differences exist.
Emma Aronsson, Malin Holzmann, Marco Bartocci, Ingela Hulthén Varli, Sissel Saltvedt   +4 more
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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Use of Saliva Samples to Test for Congenital Cytomegalovirus Infection in Newborns: Examination of False-Positive Samples Associated with Donor Milk Use

International Journal of Neonatal Screening, 2023
A universal screening research study was conducted in six hospitals to identify the clinical sensitivity of polymerase chain reaction (PCR) testing on newborn dried blood spots (DBSs) versus saliva specimens for the diagnosis of congenital ...
Whitney Wunderlich, Abbey C. Sidebottom, Anna K. Schulte, Jessica Taghon, Sheila Dollard, Nelmary Hernandez-Alvarado   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Ensuring Access to Care in Medicaid Under Health Reform [PDF]

, 2011
Outlines discussions about increasing primary care provider participation; specialist and mental health access; safety-net capacity; managed care plans, team-based care, and integrated service delivery; and coordinating Medicaid and exchange ...

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How the health-seeking behaviour of pregnant women affects neonatal outcomes: findings of system dynamics modelling in Pakistan [PDF]

, 2019
Background: Limited studies have explored how health-seeking behaviour during pregnancy through to delivery affect neonatal outcomes. We modelled health-seeking behaviour across urban and rural settings in Pakistan, where poor neonatal outcomes persist ...
Ahmad, R., Atun, R. A., Lebcir, R. M., Zhu, N. J.   +3 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
wiley   +1 more source