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Financial Burden Associated With Hospitalisation Among Families of Childhood Brain Tumours in Australia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Families of children with cancer experience significant financial strain, even with universal healthcare. Indirect costs, such as productivity losses and non‐medical expenses, are rarely included in economic evaluations, and little is known about how effectively financial aid programmes alleviate this burden. Childhood brain tumours
Megumi Lim, Natalie Bradford, David Brain, Sameera Senanayake, Sanjeewa Kularatna, Kate Young, Christine Cashion, Tim Hassall, Susanna Cramb   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparing Two Deep-Learning Models in Discrete Choice Analysis of Customers’ Mobile Plan Preferences

Applied Sciences
A discrete choice experiment (DCE) was used to investigate students’ preferences for mobile phone plans at a South African university. Upon obtaining the data, this study compares the predictive performance of two machine-learning models for discrete ...
Chidimma Oliobi, Knowledge Chinhamu, Temesgen Zewotir   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Comparative safety of anti-epileptic drugs during pregnancy: a systematic review and network meta-analysis of congenital malformations and prenatal outcomes

BMC Medicine, 2017
Background Pregnant women with epilepsy frequently experience seizures related to pregnancy complications and are often prescribed anti-epileptic drugs (AEDs) to manage their symptoms.
Areti Angeliki Veroniki, Elise Cogo, Patricia Rios, Sharon E. Straus, Yaron Finkelstein, Ryan Kealey, Emily Reynen, Charlene Soobiah, Kednapa Thavorn, Brian Hutton, Brenda R. Hemmelgarn, Fatemeh Yazdi, Jennifer D’Souza, Heather MacDonald, Andrea C. Tricco   +14 more
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Exploring the prevalence of gaming disorder and Internet gaming disorder: a rapid scoping review

Systematic Reviews, 2020
Background Internet gaming disorder (IGD) was included in the DSM-5 in 2013 as a condition requiring further research, and gaming disorder (GD) was included in the ICD-11 in 2018.
Nazia Darvesh, Amruta Radhakrishnan, Chantelle C. Lachance, Vera Nincic, Jane P. Sharpe, Marco Ghassemi, Sharon E. Straus, Andrea C. Tricco   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

‘They Need to Hear You Say It’: Healthcare Professionals’ Perspectives on Barriers and Enablers to End‐of‐Life Discussions With Adolescents and Young Adults With Cancer

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT End‐of‐life conversations with adolescents and young adults (AYAs) with cancer rarely occur without the guidance of healthcare professionals. As a part of the ‘Difficult Discussions’ study, focused on palliative care and advance care planning discussions with AYAs with cancer, we investigated the factors that healthcare professionals identify ...
Justine Lee, Holly Evans, Claire E. Wakefield, Antoinette Anazodo, Richard J. Cohn, Brittany C. McGill, Elizabeth A. Lobb, Lori Wiener, Madeleine L. Juhrmann, Ursula M. Sansom‐Daly   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of quality of life amongst hearing impaired patients in a rural district of South Africa: a cross-sectional study

Discover Social Science and Health
Background Hearing loss is one of the leading causes of disability worldwide, affecting individuals across all age groups. Its impact extends beyond auditory function, influencing overall health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and presenting significant ...
Lwazi Knowledge Mnguni, Ozayr Mahomed
doaj   +1 more source

Creation of a theoretically rooted workbook to support implementers in the practice of knowledge translation

Implementation Science Communications, 2023
Background Few training opportunities or resources for non-expert implementers focus on the “practice” as opposed to the “science” of knowledge translation (KT).
Christine Fahim, Melissa Courvoisier, Nadia Somani, Fatiah De Matas, Sharon E. Straus   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Feasibility and Safety of High‐Dose Proton Re‐Irradiation in Recurrent Pediatric Central Nervous System Tumors: A Single‐Institution Retrospective Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Purpose Pediatric central nervous system (CNS) tumors often recur despite multimodality therapy. Although re‐irradiation (re‐RT) has historically been limited by concerns for severe late toxicities, modern techniques have renewed interest in this approach. Proton therapy provides dosimetric advantages that may enable curative re‐treatment with
Jin‐Ho Song, Jonathan Baron, Carlos Chavez Perez, Sidharth Ramesh, Jane Minturn, Kavita A. Desai, Amish C. Shah, Jean M. Belasco, Kristina A. Cole, Michael J. Fisher, Phillip B. Storm, Peter M. Madsen, Goldie Kurtz, Robert A. Lustig, Christine Hill‐Kayser, Michael J. LaRiviere   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exploring the Meaning of Fatherhood in Guguletu [PDF]

, 2013
This was a study conducted by a Gender Studies Honours student who collaborated with the NGO Ikamva Labantu in Guguletu. The NGO was interested in understanding men's involvement as fathers and what support they needed for this role. The aim of the study
UCT Knowledge Co-op
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Inexact Knowledge

Mind, 1992
Most of our knowledge is inexact, and known by us to be so. An example of such known inexactness will be described in some detail. The description seems to entail a contradiction. However, the paradoxical reasoning rests on an assumption. It will be suggested that the description is correct and this assumption false.
openaire   +3 more sources