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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Ongoing evidence indicates increased risk of sarcopenic obesity among children and young people (CYP) with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), often beginning early in treatment, persisting into survivorship. This review evaluates current literature on body composition in CYP with ALL during and after treatment.
Lina A. Zahed +5 more
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F1000Research, 2018 Background: Ukraine has high rates of poor treatment outcomes among drug sensitive tuberculosis (DSTB) patients, while global treatment success rates for DSTB remain high.
Omowunmi Aibana +7 more
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Using the Knowledge Base of Health Services Research to Redefine Health Care Systems [PDF]
Journal of General Internal Medicine, 2015 This Perspective discusses 12 key facts derived from 50 years of health services research and argues that this knowledge base can stimulate innovative thinking about how to make health care systems safer, more efficient, more cost effective, and more patient centered, even as they respond to the needs of diverse communities.
Robert H, Brook, Mary E, Vaiana
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Novel wireless communication protocol for e-health applications. [PDF]
, 2011 Evolution from wired to wireless communication systems has brought great advantages to healthcare services. Mobility support function for e-Health applications gives practitioners, medical centres, and hospitals new tools for managing patients’ care ...
Mihaylova, L., Zvikhachevskaya, A.
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Parent‐to‐Child Information Disclosure in Pediatric Oncology
Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Despite professional consensus regarding the importance of open communication with pediatric cancer patients about their disease, actual practice patterns of disclosure are understudied. Extant literature suggests a significant proportion of children are not told about their diagnosis/prognosis, which is purported to negatively ...
Rachel A. Kentor +12 more
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Economic burden of excess weight among older adults in Singapore: a cross-sectional study
BMJ Open, 2022 Objectives To estimate the incremental per capita and aggregate direct and indirect costs of excess weight among older adults (aged 40–80) in Singapore.Design Secondary data analysis of an existing cross-sectional surveySetting Residential districts in ...
Ecosse Lamoureux +4 more
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Managing a sustainable, low carbon supply chain in the English National Health Service: The views of senior managers. [PDF]
, 2013 Objectives:In an effort to reduce costs and respond to climate change, health care providers (Trusts) in England have started to change how they purchase goods and services. Many factors, both internal and external, affect the supply chain.
National Health Service Sustainable Development Unit +3 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.Abstract Introduction The TEDDI trial tested the feasibility and reproducibility of deep‐inspiration breath‐hold (DIBH) in pediatric patients referred for radiotherapy. This report presents final results, including patient‐reported outcomes (PRO) and dosimetric comparison of DIBH and free‐breathing (FB).
Daniella Elisabet Østergaard +11 more
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Health Research Policy and Systems, 2019 Background Pakistan has one of the highest infant and child mortality rates in the world, half of these occurring due to vaccine-preventable diseases. The country started its Expanded Programme on immunisation (EPI) in 1978.
Zaeem Haq +4 more
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The Public Health PBRN Program: A Summative Report [PDF]
, 2013 This program seeks to expand the volume and quality of evidence on how best to organize, finance, and deliver public health services by: (1) helping to organize and develop practice-based research networks (PBRNs) comprised of public health agencies and ...
Center for Public Health Systems and Services Research
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