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Consensus Standards and Recommendations for Developmental and Cognitive Surveillance, Screening, and Evaluation in Sickle Cell Disease: Executive Summary From the National Alliance of Sickle Cell Centers Neurocognitive Workgroup

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neurodevelopmental and neurocognitive difficulties are prevalent among individuals with sickle cell disease and warrant prompt identification and support. This Special Report provides an executive summary of standards and recommendations for surveillance, screening, and evaluation for development and cognition across the lifespan developed by ...
Alyssa M. Schlenz, Donna Murdaugh, Andrew M. Heitzer, Jennifer N. Longoria, Wendy Santos‐Modesitt, Arianna Martin, Judy Cavazos, Jeff Schatz, Catherine R. Hoyt, Alison King, Eboni I. Lance, Steven Hardy, Marsha Treadwell   +12 more
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INTEGRATED HEALTH SERVICE DELIVERY: WHY AND HOW?

National Journal of Medical Research, 2013
Integrated service delivery is an approach of combining services of multiple interrelated diseases to increase overall efficiency of the health system and patient convenience.
Satya Ranjan Lenka, Bitra George
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Breaking a Guinness World Record on Hand Sanitizing Relay, initiating a call for vital research in overcoming campaign fatigue for hand hygiene [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/4gb]

F1000Research, 2014
Hand hygiene has been shown to be effective in significantly reducing hospital acquired infections for many years. However it is difficult to maintain and enhance compliance with hand hygiene guidelines. In Hong Kong, we previously reported a strategy to
Wing Hong Seto, Kwok-Hung Li, Christina Woon Yee Cheung, Patricia Tai Yin Ching, Benjamin J. Cowling   +4 more
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The Evolution of Health Services Research [PDF]

Health Services Research, 2013
The field of health services research is poised for a major sea change. It is not so much that researchers are being asked to focus on new topic areas as that the role that they are expected to play in conducting research is evolving. The implementation of provisions within the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will encourage a greater partnership than has ...
openaire   +4 more sources

Ovarian Sex Cord Stromal Tumors in Children and Adolescents—The European Standard Clinical Practice Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As part of the European Cooperative Study Group for Paediatric Rare Tumours initiative, we developed standard clinical practice guidelines for ovarian sex cord stromal tumors, based on comprehensive national and international cohort analyses, literature review, and a final expert consensus conference.
Dominik T. Schneider, Kris‐Ann Schultz, Nora Schnitzler, Michael Abele, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Ines B. Brecht, Maja Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Michaela Kuhlen, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Yves Reguerre, Calogero Virgone, Daniel Orbach   +15 more
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The utilisation of health research in policy-making: Concepts, examples, and methods of assessment [PDF]

, 2010
Chapter 1: Introduction and Background • The importance of utilising health research in policy-making, and therefore the need to understand the mechanisms involved, is increasingly recognised.
Kogan, M, Hanney, S, Gonzalez-Block, MA, Buxton, MJ   +3 more
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Has incentive payment improved venous thrombo-embolism risk assessment and treatment of hospital in-patients? [v1; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/8k]

F1000Research, 2013
This paper focuses on financial incentives rewarding successful implementation of guidelines in the UK National Health Service (NHS). In particular, it assesses the implementation of National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) venous ...
Sue Child, Rod Sheaff, Olga Boiko, Alice Bateman, Christian A Gericke   +4 more
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Mapping Childhood Cancer Care Services in Oceania: Methodological Lessons From the SIOP Global Mapping Programme

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The International Paediatric Oncology Society Global Mapping Programme aims to collect data on global paediatric oncology services by continent, with Africa and Latin America completed. This study reports on the methodology and lessons learned for Oceania, a unique continent with resource disparity across countries, multiple small island ...
Trisha Soosay Raj, Christy Noble, Amy Gray, Daniel C. Moreira, Jennifer Lowe, Maite Gorostegui, Gwenda Anga, Andrew Soma, Milena Lay Dos Santos, Siobhan Cross, Erin Luttrell, Michael Sullivan, Julie Cayrol, Julia Challinor, Neil Ranasinghe, Jordana McLoone, Claire E. Wakefield   +16 more
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Morbidade referida e utilização de serviços de saúde em localidades urbanas brasileiras: metodologia

Revista de Saúde Pública
A reformulação do sistema de saúde, que vem ocorrendo em nível nacional e particularmente no Estado de São Paulo, tem motivado revisões do processo de planejamento, criando novas necessidades na área de informações.
Chester L. G. Cesar, Gerusa Maria Figueiredo, Márcia F. Westphal, Maria Regina A. Cardoso, Maria Zilda de A. Costa, Vera Lucia Gattás   +5 more
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A promising approach to scale up health care improvements in low-and middle-income countries: the Wave-Sequence Spread Approach and the concept of the Slice of a System [v2; ref status: indexed, http://f1000r.es/3sa]

F1000Research, 2014
There are several examples of successes in improving health care. However, many of these remain limited to the sites at which they were originally developed.
M. Rashad Massoud, Nana Mensah-Abrampah
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