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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
doaj   +1 more source

Practice-based Qualitative Research: Participant Experiences of Walk-in Counselling and Traditional Counselling [PDF]

, 2016
Walk-in single session counselling is becoming a more widely used model for delivering mental health services across Ontario. This paper reports findings from the qualitative phase of a mixed method study, exploring the experiences of those attending ...
Booton, Jocelyn, Cait, Cheryl-Anne, Horton, Susan, Riemer, Manuel, Skop, Michelle J, Stalker, Carol   +5 more
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Approaching Etuaptmumk – introducing a consensus-based mixed method for health services research

International Journal of Circumpolar Health, 2015
With the recognized need for health systems’ improvements in the circumpolar and indigenous context, there has been a call to expand the research agenda across all sectors influencing wellness and to recognize academic and indigenous knowledge through ...
S. Chatwood, F. Paulette, R. Baker, Astrid M. A. Eriksen, K. L. Hansen, Heidi Eriksen, Vanessa Y. Hiratsuka, J. Lavoie, W. Lou, I. Mauro, J. Orbinski, Nathalie Pabrum, H. Retallack, Adalsteinn D. Brown   +13 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Lifestyle Behaviors and Cardiotoxic Treatment Risks in Adult Childhood Cancer Survivors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Higher doses of anthracyclines and heart‐relevant radiotherapy increase cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk. This study assessed CVD and CVD risk factors among adult childhood cancer survivors (CCSs) across cardiotoxic treatment risk groups and examined associations between lifestyle behaviors and treatment risks.
Ruijie Li, Raquel Revuelta Iniesta, Alan R. Barker, Dimitris Vlachopoulos, Tomáš Sláma, Christina Schindera, Fabiën N. Belle   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Cerebrospinal Fluid Liquid Biopsy Enables Targeted Therapy Without Tissue Diagnosis in Pediatric Low‐Grade Gliomas With BRAF V600E Mutation

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We present two pediatric cases of pediatric low‐grade gliomas (PLGG) with BRAF V600E mutations diagnosed and monitored using cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) liquid biopsy analyzed via digital droplet PCR (ddPCR), without tissue biopsy. Both patients were treated with dabrafenib and trametinib and monitored through clinical assessments, magnetic ...
Hannah Sultan, Damien Faury, Alexander G. Weil, Harrison J. Westwick, Nada Jabado, Sébastien Perreault   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
doaj   +1 more source

Health services and systems research in Europe: overview of the literature 1995 2005 [PDF]

The European Journal of Public Health, 2007
Our objective, within the collaborative study SPHERE (Strengthening Public Health Research in Europe) is to give an overview of health services and health systems research in Europe, based on a search of the literature in PubMed and Embase.The method used in this study consisted of: (i) A bibliometric analysis, and (ii) Classification of health ...
Delnoij, D.M.J., Groenewegen, P.P.
openaire   +4 more sources

Research-Practice-Policy Partnerships for Implementation of Evidence-Based Practices in Child Welfare and Child Mental Health [PDF]

, 2015
Partnerships between researchers, practitioners, and policymakers represent a promising avenue for improving outcomes for young people and families.In a new report, Lawrence Palinkas, Cherry Short, and Marleen Wong of the University of Southern ...
Cherry Short, Lawrence A. Palinkas, Marleen Wong   +2 more
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Fair publication of qualitative research in health systems: a call by health policy and systems researchers. [PDF]

, 2016
[Extract] An open letter from Trisha Greenhalgh et al. [1] to the editors of the British Medical Journal (BMJ) triggered wide debate by health policy and systems researchers (HPSRs) globally on the inadequate recognition of the value of qualitative ...
Daniels, Karen, George, Asha, Howard, Natasha, Koleva, Gergana, Lewin, Simon, Loewenson, Rene, Marchal, Bruno, Nambiar, Devaki, Paina, Ligia, Sacks, Emma, Sheikh, Kabir, Social science approaches for research and engagement in health, Tetui, Moses, Theobald, Sally, Topp, Stephanie M, Zwi, Anthony B   +15 more
core   +4 more sources