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Health system resilience and health workforce capacities: Comparing health system responses during the COVID‐19 pandemic in six European countries

International Journal of Health Planning and Management, 2022
Background The health workforce is a key component of any health system and the present crisis offers a unique opportunity to better understand its specific contribution to health system resilience.
V. Burau, M. Falkenbach, S. Neri, S. Peckham, I. Wallenburg, E. Kuhlmann   +5 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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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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Community health workers at the dawn of a new era: 9. CHWs’ relationships with the health system and communities

Health Research Policy and Systems, 2021
This is the ninth paper in our series, “Community Health Workers at the Dawn of a New Era”. Community health workers (CHWs) are in an intermediary position between the health system and the community.
K. Leban, M. Kok, H. Perry
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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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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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