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The Magnitude and Determinants of Missed Opportunities for Childhood Vaccination in South Africa

Vaccines, 2020
Missed opportunities for vaccination (MOV) may be among the factors responsible for suboptimal vaccination coverage in South Africa. However, the magnitude and determinants of MOV in the country are not known.
Duduzile Ndwandwe, Chukwudi A. Nnaji, Charles S. Wiysonge   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Walla Walla General Hospital: Setting Staff Up for Success in Pneumonia Care [PDF]

, 2010
Outlines education and reinforcement strategies, including building a quality culture and implementing a hospitalist program, standardized order sets, and staff supports, that enable high performance on pneumonia care core measures.
Aimee Lashbrook
core  

Breathing SPACE – a practical approach to the breathless patient. [PDF]

, 2016
Breathlessness is a common symptom which may have multiple causes in any one individual and causes which may change over time. Breathlessness campaigns encourage people to see their GP if they are unduly breathless.
Baxter, N, Hopkinson, NS
core   +1 more source

Decellularized Extracellular Matrix Scaffolds to Engineer the Dormant Landscape of Microscopic Colorectal Cancer Liver Metastasis

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Decellularized liver extracellular matrix scaffolds provide a platform to study dormant liver‐metastatic colorectal cancer. They induce reversible dormancy, in combination with nutrient depletion and low dose chemotherapy, through cell cycle arrest and chemotherapy resistance.
Sabrina N. VandenHeuvel, Lucia L. Nash, Abigail J. Clevenger, Claudia A. Collier, Oscar R. Benavides, Sanjana Roy, Brinlee Goggans, Aelita Salikhova, Anvitha Tharakesh, Svasti Haricharan, Amber N. Stratman, Scott Kopetz, Alex J. Walsh, Shreya A. Raghavan   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Timeliness of Childhood Vaccinations Following Strengthening of the Second Year of Life (2YL) Immunization Platform and Introduction of Catch-Up Vaccination Policy in Ghana

Vaccines
Strengthening routine immunization systems to successfully deliver childhood vaccines during the second year of life (2YL) is critical for vaccine-preventable disease control. In Ghana, the 18-month visit provides opportunities to deliver the second dose
Pierre Muhoza, Monica P. Shah, Kwame Amponsa-Achiano, Hongjiang Gao, Pamela Quaye, William Opare, Charlotte Okae, Philip-Neri Aboyinga, Joseph Kwadwo Larbi Opare, Daniel C. Ehlman, Melissa T. Wardle, Aaron S. Wallace   +11 more
doaj   +1 more source

Predictors of HPV Vaccination Series Completion in Philadelphia Adolescents [PDF]

, 2017
Research Aim: This study analyzed data from the Philadelphia KidsPlus Immunization information System (IIS) to look at factors associated with HPV vaccine series completion.
Leader, DrPH, MPH, Amy E., Patel, PhD, MPH, Ami S., Youngdahl, MPH, Karie   +2 more
core   +1 more source

The EU Vaccines Strategy: A Missed Opportunity for EU Public Health?

European Journal of Risk Regulation, 2023
AbstractThe response to the COVID-19 crisis implied an unprecedented involvement of the European Union (EU) executive in public health matters. In June 2020, the Member States agreed upon a joint EU Vaccines Strategy, whereby the European Commission was enabled to negotiate, support and allocate vaccine doses on their behalf.
openaire   +2 more sources

Mutual Exclusion Analysis Shows that DUSP9 Negatively Regulates PD‐L1 Expression and Acts as a Target to Enhance Anti‐PD‐1 Efficacy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A mutually exclusive screening system is established to identify negative regulators of highly plastic genes. Dual specificity phosphatase (DUSP9) is a novel negative regulatory molecule of PD‐L1 by dephosphorylating STAT3, and acts as a target molecule in combination with PD‐1 antibody for tumor immunotherapy and a new clinical biomarker for ...
Yuzhe Hu, Ling Tang, Zheng Kuang, Danyi Huang, Ting Li, Gaofei Yin, Yingyu Chen, Wei Guo, Wenling Han, Pingzhang Wang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A quality improvement education initiative to increase adolescent human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine completion rates

Human Vaccines & Immunotherapeutics, 2019
HPV vaccine uptake is low, nationwide. Quality improvement (QI) principles have the potential to change practice; however, not all providers are confident with QI skills.
Cynthia A Bonville, Joseph B Domachowske, Manika Suryadevara   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Human Papillomavirus Infection: Prevention, Barriers to Vaccination, and the Need for Education [PDF]

, 2016
While there is no known cure for HPV, prophylactic vaccination provides an effective method of primary prevention against HPV-related diseases. However, many females and males never receive the HPV vaccine as recommended.
Kessler, Theresa A
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