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Hospitalization Through Families’ Eyes: Comparing Inpatient Care Quality for Children With Sickle Cell Disease and Cystic Fibrosis in Canada

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker, Kyle Kemp, Perri Tutelman, Sharon H. J. Hou, Paul Fairie, Maria Santana, Gregory M. T. Guilcher, Taryn Fay‐McClymont, Glenda Bendiak, Wendy Pelletier, Nicola Wright, Fiona Schulte   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Design, Development, and Reliability Testing of a New Innovative Device to Measure Ankle Joint Dorsiflexion

, 2016
Background: In clinical and research settings, ankle joint dorsiflexion needs to be reliably measured. Dorsiflexion is often measured by goniometry, but the intrarater and interrater reliability of this technique have been reported to be poor.
Charles, James
core   +1 more source

Venous Thromboembolism in Pediatric Bone Sarcoma Patients: A 10‐Year, Single‐Institution Experience Encompassing the COVID‐19 Pandemic

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Osteosarcoma (OS) and Ewing sarcoma (EWS) are the most common primary bone cancers in children, but acute thrombosis is poorly characterized in this population. Our study evaluated the rates of venous thromboembolism (VTE) and associated risk factors in pediatric patients with bone sarcomas treated over a 10‐year period encompassing
Sarah Kappa, Shou Xu, Mark Zobeck, Sarah E. Sartain, Nino Rainusso, Lisa Wang, Nicole Montgomery, Paige Wheaton, Sarah Whittle   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

A new measure of nominal-ordinal association

, 2001
A new measure for evaluating the strengthness of the asso- ciation between a nominal variable and an ordered categorical response variable is introduced.
Piccarreta, R
core   +2 more sources

Student achievement, school quality, and an error-prone family background measure: exploring the sensitivity of the Heyneman-Loxley effect in Southern and Eastern Africa

Large-scale Assessments in Education, 2022
Background We examine the sensitivity of the Heyneman-Loxley Effect to the influence of an error-prone family background measure in 15 education systems from Southern and Eastern Africa.
W. Joshua Rew, Anabelle Andon, Thomas F. Luschei   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Serological Benefit of SARS‐CoV‐2 Vaccination Relative to Infection in Children With Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) are at risk of severe outcomes from SARS‐CoV‐2 (SCV2). In the post‐pandemic context, where most children have been infected with SCV2, there are limited data on whether vaccination remains beneficial in children with ALL.
Janna R. Shapiro, Freda Qi, Karen Colwill, Alina D. Dorogy, Ying Liu, Michelle Science, Anne‐Claude Gingras, James M. Rini, Sumit Gupta, Sarah Alexander, Shelly Bolotin, Tania H. Watts   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

The association between the level of institutional support for dementia care in primary care practices and the quality of dementia primary care: A retrospective chart review

Alzheimer’s & Dementia: Translational Research & Clinical Interventions, 2022
Introduction Institutional support, encompassing financial and training support, as well as interdisciplinary teams, may be important for the quality of dementia primary care for persons living with dementia.
Mary Henein, Geneviève Arsenault‐Lapierre, Nadia Sourial, Claire Godard‐Sebillotte, Isabelle Vedel, for the Research on Organization of Healthcare Services for Alzheimer's (ROSA) Team   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cross-sectional studies

Revista de la Facultad de Medicina Humana, 2021
Cross-sectional studies are epidemiological design which can be considered as descriptive or analytical designs depending on the general objective. This is a quickly and economical design and allows to calculate the prevalence of a condition.
Aleksandar Cvetković Vega, Jorge L. Maguiña, Alonso Soto, Jaime Lama-Valdivia, Lucy E. Correa López   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Deep Sequencing of FLT3‐ITD Enables Response Evaluation and Post‐Treatment Monitoring in Childhood AML: An Exploratory Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background An internal tandem duplication in the gene encoding Fms‐like tyrosine kinase 3 (FLT3‐ITD) is associated with high relapse risk and poor prognosis in acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and plays a crucial role in treatment decisions. Measurable residual disease (MRD) analysis of FLT3‐ITD during and after treatment has shown prognostic ...
Sofie Johansson Alm, Bea Tornberg, Erik Delsing Malmberg, Henrik Hasle, Kristian Løvvik Juul‐Dam, Lars Palmqvist, Borhan R. Saeed, Giti Shah Barkhordar, Anastasia Soboli, Anna Staffas, Jonas Abrahamsson, Linda Fogelstrand   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Association between urbanicity and physical activity in Mexican adolescents: The use of a composite urbanicity measure. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2018
PURPOSE:In Mexico, 39.5% of adolescents do not meet the World Health Organisation's physical activity guidelines. Urbanicity is a potential correlate of physical activity. The aim of this study was to examine the associations between different aspects of
Maria E Hermosillo-Gallardo, Russell Jago, Simon J Sebire   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source