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Social Functioning Within the First Years After Pediatric Brain Tumor Diagnosis and the Relationship With Family Psychosocial Risk

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Survivors of pediatric brain tumors (PBTs) can experience long‐term social difficulties, impacting quality of life. Beyond medical and environmental factors, family psychosocial risk may play a role in social outcomes by shaping the caregiving environment and may provide intervention options.
Renske H. Houben, Marisa H. Huisman, Martha A. Grootenhuis, Femke K. Aarsen, Marita Partanen   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The effect of medication reviews on reducing medication anticholinergic burden in elderly patients [PDF]

, 2017
Anticholinergic side effects of medications often misdiagnosed as cognitive function decline in the elderly. The study aims to explore the effectiveness of home medication reviews on reducing anticholinergic burden caused by medications with ...
Morrissey, Hana, Ball, Patrick, Abed, Howraa   +2 more
core   +3 more sources

Bedside medication review with cognitive and depression screening by a clinical pharmacist as part of a comprehensive geriatric assessment in hospitalized older patients with polypharmacy: A pilot study.

PLoS ONE, 2022
BackgroundPolypharmacy is highly prevalent in older patients with multimorbidity and is associated with increased risk of adverse drug events. This pilot study investigated the added value of a bedside medication review with cognitive and depression ...
Veerle Mertens, Leen Jacobs, Nicole Knops, Seyedeh Malihe Alemzadeh, Kay Vandeven, Jo Swartenbroekx, Greta Moorkens, Maurits Vandewoude   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Impact of Home Medicines Review on medication regimen complexity

Journal of Pharmacy Practice and Research
AbstractBackgroundPrevious studies on pharmacist‐led Home Medicines Review (HMR) have demonstrated positive associations of HMR and clinical outcomes. However, little is known about their impact on medication regimen complexity.AimInvestigate the impact of pharmacist‐led HMRs on simplifying medication regimen complexity using the Medication Regimen ...
Shrey Seth, Lipin Lukose, Wubshet H. Tesfaye, Sathvik B. Sridhar, Girish Thunga, Ronald L. Castelino   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

A Review of the Effectiveness of Antidepressant Medications for Depressed Nursing Home Residents [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Directors Association, 2012
Antidepressant medications are the most common psychopharmacologic therapy used to treat depressed nursing home (NH) residents. Despite a significant increase in the rate of antidepressant prescribing over the past several decades, little is known about the effectiveness of these agents in the NH population.To conduct a systematic review of the ...
Richard D, Boyce, Joseph T, Hanlon, Jordan F, Karp, John, Kloke, Ahlam, Saleh, Steven M, Handler   +5 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Effectiveness of Resistance Intradialytic Exercise Compared to Aerobic Intradialytic Exercise for Patients With Chronic Kidney Disease: A Randomized Controlled Clinical Trial

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Patients with chronic kidney disease undergoing hemodialysis commonly experience reduced physical function, fatigue, poor sleep quality, and impaired health‐related quality of life. Intradialytic exercise has been proposed as a non‐pharmacological strategy to improve these outcomes.
Klebson da Silva Almeida, Gisela Cristiane Miyamoto, Daniel da Costa Torres, Ian Setubal Reis Chaves, Jonas do Carmo Paschoalin, Braúlio Lima Nascimento, Luciana Dias Chiavegato   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association Between Individualized Education for Kidney Replacement Therapy Modality Selection and Peritoneal Dialysis Initiation: A Cross‐Sectional Study

Therapeutic Apheresis and Dialysis, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Peritoneal dialysis (PD) is an established home‐based kidney replacement therapy (KRT), but its uptake remains low in Japan. We evaluated whether individualized education in a dedicated outpatient clinic was associated with the initiation of PD.
Yasuko Ito, Ryuichi Yoshimura, Takaki Yamauchi, Yuta Funakoshi, Hirotaka Sonoda, Seiji Kobayashi, Hiroyuki Terawaki, Takafumi Ito   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Barriers and Facilitators of Conducting Medication Reviews in Nursing Home Residents: A Qualitative Study

Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2019
Objectives: Inappropriate medication prescribing is a recognized clinical problem in nursing home residents of whom many have polypharmacy. However, results about the effectiveness of medication reviews targeted at improving prescribing and deprescribing
Hans Wouters, Hans Wouters, Juliet M. Foster, Anne Ensink, Lisa Kouladjian O’Donnell, Lisa Kouladjian O’Donnell, Sytse U. Zuidema, Froukje Boersma, Katja Taxis   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Gut microbiome and aging—A dynamic interplay of microbes, metabolites, and the immune system

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Age‐dependent shifts in microbial communities engender shifts in microbial metabolite profiles. These in turn drive shifts in barrier surface permeability of the gut and brain and induce immune activation. When paired with preexisting age‐related chronic inflammation this increases the risk of neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases.
Aaron Mehl, Eran Blacher
wiley   +1 more source

The human gut microbiome across the life course

FEBS Letters, EarlyView.
Despite significant individual variation and continuous change throughout life, the human gut microbiome follows some life stage‐specific trends. This article provides a brief overview of how gut microbiome composition shifts across different phases of life. Created in BioRender. Özkurt, E. (2026) https://BioRender.com/8q4nrnc.
Alise J. Ponsero, Basak Bahcivanci, Antonietta Hayhoe, Animesh Acharjee, Ezgi Özkurt   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source