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Multidisciplinary team meetings in cancer care: is there a psychologist in the house?

International Journal of Integrated Care, 2019
Introduction: Multidisciplinary team meetings (MDTMs) are considered best practice in the management and decision-making for cancer patients. The team typically consists of surgeons, medical oncologists, organ specialists, radiologists, pathologists and ...
Melissa Horlait, Sophie Dhaene, Simon Van Belle, Mark Leys   +3 more
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Advancing Geriatric Hospice Care in China: An Interpretation and Critical Analysis of the New National Standard WS/T 844–2024

AGING MEDICINE, EarlyView.
The Setting Standards for Elderly Hospice Care Wards are crucial for meeting urgent elderly patient needs, enhancing hospice care quality, and advancing China's humanized elderly health system. This Standard specifies the configuration requirements for geriatric hospice care wards in terms of ward configuration, staffing models, age‐appropriate ...
Yinan Wu, Chang Li, Shangxin Liu, Huiping Chen, Yongyi Chen, Xinyu Chen, Yumei Wang, Yuan Qin, Zhong Yi, Pengjun Zhang, Biyan Jiang, Jianye Wang, Bei Lai   +12 more
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Disparities in cancer incidence, stage at diagnosis, treatment and mortality across socioeconomic groups in Finland: a register-based population study

BMJ Public Health
Background Socioeconomic inequalities in various cancer-related indicators exist globally, but the evidence is fragmented even within countries.
Peng Li, Pekka Martikainen, Kaarina Korhonen, Mikko Myrskylä, Luca Dei Bardi, Xianhua Zai, Margherita Moretti   +6 more
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Agricultural Diversification at the Margin. Strategies and Determinants in Italian Mountain and Remote Areas

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the convergence in on‐farm diversification strategies of agricultural holdings, between remote areas and more central ones. Using Italian farm‐level data, we explore the determinants of diversification strategies across farms.
Gianluca Grilli, Francesco Pagliacci, Paola Gatto   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A comparison of assessment tools for childcare centers in high vs. low resource settings

Frontiers in Public Health
Studies suggest issues may arise when using childcare setting assessment tools designed for high-resource settings in low-resource settings to assess and improve the quality of care, including placing disproportionate weight on features of the childcare ...
Hy V. Huynh, Eve Puffer, Eve Puffer, Jan Ostermann, Jan Ostermann, Andrew K. Weinhold, Meghan E. Lopez, Melissa McGovern, Kathryn Whetten, Kathryn Whetten   +9 more
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Food Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study investigates how food consumption tastes have changed in recent decades across the United States. Using NielsenIQ data for over 77 million transactions, there is evidence of divergence in food tastes across regions from 2007 to 2016 and across households of different income, education, and race/ethnicity groups.
Michael DeDad
wiley   +1 more source

On Hoeffding’s inequalities

The Annals of Probability, 2004
In a celebrated work by Hoeffding [J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 58 (1963) 13-30], several inequalities for tail probabilities of sums M_n=X_1+... +X_n of bounded independent random variables X_j were proved. These inequalities had a considerable impact on the development of probability and statistics, and remained unimproved until 1995 when Talagrand [Inst.
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On Carleson’s inequality [PDF]

Journal of Inequalities and Applications, 2018
We present a new proof of Hardy's inequality by giving an [Formula: see text] version of Carleson's inequality.
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A Self-Righteous, Not a Virtuous, Circle: Proposing a New Framework for Studying Media Effects on Knowledge and Political Participation in a Social Media Environment

Social Media + Society
To explain the participatory effects of news exposure, communication scholars have long relied upon the “virtuous circle” framework of media use and civic participation.
Sangwon Lee, Sebastián Valenzuela
doaj   +1 more source

The Power of Unity: Collective Action and Smallholder Agricultural Performance in West Africa

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We analyze the impact of collective action through farmer‐based organizations (FBOs) on smallholders' farm performance and income inequality in Ghana, Benin, The Gambia, and Mali. We find that FBO membership increases cereal yield in Ghana and The Gambia, legume yield in Mali, ruminant numbers in Benin and The Gambia, and total farm income in ...
Emmanuel Donkor, Bright Owusu Asante, David Boansi, Victor Owusu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source