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Blockchain protocols in clinical trials: Transparency and traceability of consent [version 5; referees: 1 approved, 2 approved with reservations, 2 not approved]

F1000Research, 2018
Clinical trial consent for protocols and their revisions should be transparent for patients and traceable for stakeholders. Our goal is to implement a process allowing for collection of patients’ informed consent, which is bound to protocol revisions ...
Mehdi Benchoufi, Raphael Porcher, Philippe Ravaud   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Misperception of Body Weight After Childhood Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Misperception of body weight can negatively impact the weight management efforts of childhood cancer survivors (CCSs). Both being overweight or underweight are associated with chronic health conditions commonly observed in CCS; therefore, accurate weight perception is critical for reducing long‐term health risks.
Fabiën N. Belle, Tomáš Sláma, Eva Haegler‐Laube, Reto D. Kurmann, Gabriela M. Kuster, Christoph Saner, Eva Scheler, Yara Shoman, Christina Schindera   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Accounting for Research – the Difficulties Posed for User-Centred Research [PDF]

, 2006
When public money is invested in research it is necessary to have in place accounting systems that demonstrate its value. By this we mean its social as much as its economic value to society.
Minogue, Virginia, Grant, Gordon, Walsh, Mike, Courtney, Duncan, King, Sarah, Shields, Graham, Walsh, Michael   +6 more
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Primary health care assessment in Brazil: conception and methodology of the 2024 National Basic Health Unit Census

Cadernos de Saúde Pública
Primary health care (PHC) is the basis of the Brazilian Unified National Health System (SUS). After a discontinuity in PHC evaluation policies, the Ministry of Health, with the support of the PHC Research Network of the Brazilian Association of Public ...
Aylene Bousquat, Ligia Giovanella, Rosana Aquino, Ana Luiza Queiroz Vilasbôas, Elaine Thumé, Elaine Tomasi, Maria Helena Magalhães de Mendonça, Alaneir de Fátima da Silva, Patty Fidelis de Almeida, Paulo Henrique dos Santos Mota, Carlos Pilz, Elisandréa Sguario Kemper, Dirceu Klitzke, Gabriela da Silva Formoso, Bruna Venturin, Luiz Augusto Facchini   +15 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Point-of-contact Interactive Record Linkage (PIRL): A software tool to prospectively link demographic surveillance and health facility data [version 2; referees: 2 approved]

Gates Open Research, 2018
Linking a health and demographic surveillance system (HDSS) to data from a health facility that serves the HDSS population generates a research infrastructure for directly observed data on access to and utilization of health facility services.
Christopher T. Rentsch, Chodziwadziwa Whiteson Kabudula, Jason Catlett, David Beckles, Richard Machemba, Baltazar Mtenga, Nkosinathi Masilela, Denna Michael, Redempta Natalis, Mark Urassa, Jim Todd, Basia Zaba, Georges Reniers   +12 more
doaj   +1 more source

Primary care management of chronic insomnia: a qualitative analysis of the attitudes and experiences of Australian general practitioners

BMC Family Practice, 2021
Background Chronic insomnia is a highly prevalent disorder, with ten to thirty percent of Australian adults reporting chronic difficulties falling asleep and/or staying asleep such that it causes significant daytime impairment. Current Australian general
Jenny Haycock, Nicole Grivell, Anne Redman, Bandana Saini, Andrew Vakulin, Leon Lack, Nicole Lovato, Alexander Sweetman, Nicholas Zwar, Nigel Stocks, Oliver Frank, Sutapa Mukherjee, Robert Adams, R. Doug McEvoy, Elizabeth Hoon   +14 more
doaj   +1 more source

Tracking Health Related Quality of Life From Diagnosis to Follow‐Up Among Australian Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) is one of the most treatable forms of paediatric cancer; however, there is a substantial burden of treatment‐related toxicities (TRTs). In addition, the long‐term changes in children's health‐related quality of life (HRQoL) due to toxic treatments are not well understood.
Clare Ghows, Clarissa E. Schilstra, Karen McCleary, Nancy E. Briggs, Rishi S. Kotecha, Richard De Abreu Lourenco, Shanti Ramachandran, Ruelleyn Cockcroft, Rachel Conyers, Siobhan Cross, Luciano Dalla‐Pozza, Peter Downie, Tamas Revesz, Michael Osborn, Frank Alvaro, Claire E. Wakefield, Glenn M. Marshall, Toby Trahair, Marion K. Mateos, Joanna E. Fardell   +19 more
wiley   +1 more source

What a tangled web we weave : improving performance reporting and accountability in BC : proceedings of the 16th annual Health Policy Conference of the Centre for Health Services and Policy Research, November 7, 2003 - Vancouver, BC [PDF]

, 2004
CHSPR’s 16th annual health policy conference — What a tangled web we weave: Improving performance reporting and accountability in BC — aimed to identify the reasons behind our increased focus on accountability, as well as options for moving forward and ...
University of British Columbia. Centre for Health Services and Policy Research
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How blockchain-timestamped protocols could improve the trustworthiness of medical science [version 2; referees: 2 approved]

F1000Research, 2016
Trust in scientific research is diminished by evidence that data are being manipulated. Outcome switching, data dredging and selective publication are some of the problems that undermine the integrity of published research.
Greg Irving, John Holden
doaj   +1 more source

An Introduction to Health Services Research

Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics, 1999
Abstract Analysts performing health services research must analyze large observational databases of real world medical care. These databases provide important information about real world patient outcomes, but confound the evaluation of therapies since patients and physicians select the treatment assignment.
openaire   +1 more source