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Attitudes of Academic Library Managers towards Factors Affecting Information Needs Assessment
Iranian Journal of Information Processing & Management, 2014 A periodic information needs assessment in libraries and information centers will allow libraries to focus on providing access to the most appropriate resources for specific groups and increase users satisfaction and library effectiveness.
Mohammad Reza Davarpanah +2 more
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Does the cancer patient want to know? Results from a study in an Indian tertiary cancer center
South Asian Journal of Cancer, 2013 Objective: The disclosure of the diagnosis of cancer is a distressing and complex issue. Families and doctors still do not tell patients when they have cancer in the belief that the patient does not want to know and telling him would lead to fear and ...
Shekhawat Laxmi, Joad Anjum Khan
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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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Information needs and institutional development [PDF]
, 2006 Michael W.
Mirzoyen, Armine R. +1 more
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Background Cyclophosphamide (CY) is associated with potentially fatal cardiotoxicity, yet no electrocardiographic indices have been established for early detection of CY‐induced cardiomyopathy. This study aimed to determine whether corrected QT interval (QTc) prolongation can predict early onset of CY‐related cardiac dysfunction in pediatric ...
Junpei Kawamura +5 more
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Evidence Based Library and Information Practice, 2012 Objective – To study the information-seeking behaviour of engineering faculty. Design – Online survey; Purposive sample. Setting – Engineering departments of 20 large public universities in various regions of the United States.
Laura Newton Miller
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Exploiting information needs and bibliographics for polyrepresentative document clustering [PDF]
, 2014 In this paper we explore the potential of combining the principle of polyrepresentation with document clustering. Our idea is discussed and evaluated for polyrepresentation of information needs as wells as for document-based polyrepresentation where ...
Abbasi, Muhammad Kamran, Frommholz, Ingo
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objectives To identify predictors of chronic ITP (cITP) and to develop a model based on several machine learning (ML) methods to estimate the individual risk of chronicity at the timepoint of diagnosis. Methods We analyzed a longitudinal cohort of 944 children enrolled in the Intercontinental Cooperative immune thrombocytopenia (ITP) Study ...
Severin Kasser +6 more
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Patient Information Needs: “Telling Is Not Enough”
Nursing Praxis in Aotearoa New Zealand, 1987 At the same time as more emphasis is placed on health maintenance and prevention of disease and accidents, hospital nursing is increasingly devoted to care of the patient experiencing an acute episode of illness, life-threatening event, or surgical ...
Chris Tuffnell
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Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Surveillance imaging aims to detect tumour relapse before symptoms develop, but it's unclear whether earlier detection of relapse leads to better outcomes in children and young people (CYP) with medulloblastoma and ependymoma. This systematic review aims to identify relevant literature to determine the efficacy of surveillance magnetic ...
Lucy Shepherd +3 more
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