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Overcoming the challenges facing Nepal’s health system during federalisation: an analysis of health system building blocks

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2023
Introduction Nepal’s move to a federal system was a major constitutional and political change, with significant devolution of power and resources from the central government to seven newly created provinces and 753 local governments.
Sharada Prasad Wasti, Edwin van Teijlingen, Simon Rushton, Madhusudan Subedi, Padam Simkhada, Julie Balen, for the Nepal Federal Health System Team   +6 more
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Which strategies support the effective use of clinical practice guidelines and clinical quality registry data to inform health service delivery? A systematic review

Systematic Reviews, 2022
Background Empirical evidence suggests data and insights from the clinical practice guidelines and clinical quality registries are not being fully utilised, leaving health service managers, clinicians and providers without clear guidance on how best to ...
Kathy Dempsey, Caleb Ferguson, Adam Walczak, Sandy Middleton, Christopher Levi, Rachael L. Morton, on behalf of The Australian Health Research Alliance (AHRA) Health System Improvement and Sustainability Working Group members   +6 more
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Patient-reported quality of life recovery curves after robotic prostatectomy are similar across body mass index categories [PDF]

Investigative and Clinical Urology, 2017
Purpose: To assess the impact of body mass index (BMI) on postoperative recovery curve of urinary and sexual function after ro-botic-assisted laparoscopic prostatectomy (RALP).
Tullika Garg, Amanda J. Young, Korey A. Kost, Alyssa M. Park, John F. Danella, H. Lester Kirchner   +5 more
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Impact of a Pharmacist-Led Warfarin to Direct Oral Anticoagulant Conversion Initiative during the COVID-19 Pandemic

INNOVATIONS in Pharmacy, 2022
Purpose: To assess the impact of a pharmacist-led warfarin to DOAC conversion initiative during the COVID-19 pandemic. Methods: Patients who were prescribed warfarin and followed with the anticoagulation clinic for INR monitoring were assessed by ...
Kelsey Mews, Audrey Umbreit, Emily Holm, Kelsie Davis, Ellen Kelly, Carson Reinhardt, Allison Young, Joseph Flynn   +7 more
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Voiding defects in acute radiation cystitis driven by urothelial barrier defect through loss of E-cadherin, ZO-1 and Uroplakin III

Scientific Reports, 2021
Long term-side effects from cancer therapies are a growing health care concern as life expectancy among cancer survivors increases. Damage to the bladder is common in patients treated with radiation therapy for pelvic cancers and can result in radiation (
Bernadette M. M. Zwaans, Alexander L. Carabulea, Sarah N. Bartolone, Elijah P. Ward, Michael B. Chancellor, Laura E. Lamb   +5 more
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Evaluating implementation outcomes (acceptability, adoption, and feasibility) of two initiatives to improve the medication prior authorization process

BMC Health Services Research, 2021
Background Processes such as prior authorization (PA) for medications, implemented by health insurance companies to ensure that safe, appropriate, cost-effective, and evidence-based care is provided to all members, have created inefficiencies within ...
Laney K. Jones, Ilene G. Ladd, Christina Gregor, Michael A. Evans, Jove Graham, Michael R. Gionfriddo   +5 more
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Vaccine coverage and factors associated with vaccine adherence in persons with HIV at an urban infectious disease clinic

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2023
Information on vaccination rates and factors associated with adherence in persons with HIV (PWH) is limited. We report vaccine adherence in 653 adult PWH attending an urban Infectious Disease Clinic from January 2015 to December 2021.
Navina K. Birk, Lea Monday, Tarandeep Singh, Medha Cherabuddi, Marwa Hojeij, Brandon Ho, Anne Chen, Indira Brar, George Alangaden   +8 more
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Robot-assisted partial cystectomy with intraoperative frozen section examination: Evolution and evaluation of a novel technique [PDF]

Investigative and Clinical Urology, 2016
Purpose: To describe a novel modification to robot-assisted partial cystectomy (RAPC) that allows for intraoperative surgical margin assessment by bimanual-examination and frozen-section analysis.
Akshay Sood, Dane E. Klett, Firas Abdollah, Jesse D. Sammon, Dan Pucheril, Mani Menon, Wooju Jeong, James O. Peabody   +7 more
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Osteosarcoma and soft-tissue sarcomas with an immune infiltrate express PD-L1: relation to clinical outcome and Th1 pathway activation

OncoImmunology, 2020
Immune checkpoint proteins, such as PD-L1 and PD-1, are important in several cancers; however, their role in osteosarcoma (OSA) and soft tissue sarcoma (STS) remains unclear. Our aims were to determine whether subsets of OSA/STS harbor tumor-infiltrating
Jay S. Wunder, Minji J. Lee, Junghyun Nam, Beatrice Y. Lau, Brendan C. Dickson, Dushanthi Pinnaduwage, Shelley B. Bull, Peter C. Ferguson, Andrew Seto, Nalan Gokgoz, Irene L. Andrulis   +10 more
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Potential predictors of outcomes among hospitalized COVID-19 patients treated with convalescent plasma: a single-center study

Journal of Community Hospital Internal Medicine Perspectives, 2021
Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic is a major international public health crisis, which has led to over 3 million deaths as of April 2021. Several therapeutics have been tried for this deadly illness including antivirals, immunosuppressive
Sridhar Chilimuri, Maleeha Zahid, Nikhitha Mantri, Haozhe Sun, Mohamed Saleh, Shoaib Ashraf, Sudharsan Gongati, Muhammad Adrish   +7 more
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