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Effectiveness and Safety of Aldosterone Antagonist Therapy Use Among Older Patients With Reduced Ejection Fraction After Acute Myocardial Infarction

Journal of the American Heart Association: Cardiovascular and Cerebrovascular Disease, 2016
BackgroundWhile aldosterone antagonists have proven benefit among post‐myocardial infarction (MI) patients with low ejection fraction (EF), how this treatment is used among older MI patients in routine practice is not well described.
Tracy Y. Wang, Amit N. Vora, S. Andrew Peng, Gregg C. Fonarow, Sandeep Das, James A. de Lemos, Eric D. Peterson   +6 more
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Evidence‐Informed Multidisciplinary Consensus Guidance for the Psychosocial Care of Adolescents With High‐Risk Cancer: Recommendations From the Italian Association of Pediatric Hematology and Oncology

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Adolescents with high‐risk cancer face complex developmental, psychosocial, and ethical challenges that extend beyond disease‐directed treatment. Although international recommendations exist for communication, psychosocial care, pediatric palliative care, survivorship, and shared decision‐making, these have largely evolved within ...
Johanna M. C. Blom, Dorella Scarponi, Giulia Zucchetti, Teresa Perillo, Maria Montanaro, Elisa Marconi, Chiara Rutigliano, Paolo Colavero, Paola Quarello, Marina Bertolotti, Monica Cellini, Carlo Clerici, Maurizio Mascarin, Francesca Bomben, Andrea Ferrari, the expert workgroup   +15 more
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Ethnic inequalities in palliative care prescribing in high income countries – a rapid systematic review

BMC Palliative Care
Background Effective palliative care involves managing the many symptoms commonly experienced towards the end-of-life. Appropriate prescribing is key to this care, and ethnic inequalities may lead to unequal treatment and poorer outcomes for minority ...
Tafadzwa Patience Kunonga, Eugenie Evelynne Johnson, Usvah Din, Elizabeth Westhead, Felicity Dewhurst, Barbara Hanratty   +5 more
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Developing a novel transitional care model for older emergency department patients and exploring the target population in Taiwan

Frontiers in Medicine
AimTransitional care in the emergency department (ED) has the potential to improve outcomes for older patients, but the specific population benefits from it and impact in Taiwan remain unclear.
Hung-Lin Hsu, Chung-Han Ho, Chung-Han Ho, Ying-Jia Lin, Kang-Ting Tsai, Kang-Ting Tsai, Pei-Chi Yang, Shu-Lien Hsu, Shu-Lien Hsu, An-Chi Peng, Chien-Chin Hsu, Chien-Chin Hsu, Sam Yu-Chieh Ho, Sam Yu-Chieh Ho, Chien-Cheng Huang, Chien-Cheng Huang, Chien-Cheng Huang, Chien-Cheng Huang   +17 more
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Bridging the Loneliness Gap: Depression, Connectivity, and Isolation in Pediatric Oncology Patients and Their Peers

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Loneliness is associated with adverse physical and mental health outcomes and remains understudied in children and adolescents undergoing cancer therapy. Pediatric oncology patients may be at increased risk due to medical isolation and disruption of social networks.
Charlotte N. Stahlfeld, Scott H. Maurer, Michelle D. Watkinson, John Nury, Elise Barberis, Molly C. Mack   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role and future development of supportive housing for older people in Ireland [PDF]

, 2007
This report presents the results of a study to investigate the role and future development of supportive housing for older people in Ireland. For purposes of the study, supportive housing was defined as group or sheltered housing schemes for older ...
Dolphin, Ciaran, Cullen, Kevin, Delaney, Sarah   +2 more
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Early Body Mass Index z‐Score Change and Resolution of Severe Malnutrition in Children With Sickle Cell Anemia in a Low‐Income Setting: A Prospective Single‐Arm Extension Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Children with sickle cell anemia (SCA) in low‐income settings are at risk of severe malnutrition, but optimal nutritional management has not been established. We evaluated an intensified ready‐to‐use therapeutic food (RUTF) regimen in children with persistent severe malnutrition after initial treatment and assessed whether early ...
Safiya Gambo, Shehu Umar Abdullahi, Hassan Adam Murtala, Halima Kabir, Khadija A. Shamsu, Sari A. Acra, Virginia A. Stallings, Mark Rodeghier, Michael R. DeBaun, Lauren J. Klein   +9 more
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Development of the Kunonga framework for operationalising approaches to health inequality and/or inequity evidence syntheses

BMC Public Health
Background Health inequalities and inequities are shaped by intersecting social determinants and cumulative life-course experiences. However, conventional evidence synthesis methods often lack the conceptual and analytical tools to capture this ...
Tafadzwa Patience Kunonga, Eugenie Evelynne Johnson, Pauline Addis, Elizabeth Westhead, Peter Bower, Barbara Hanratty, Dawn Craig   +6 more
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Central Nervous System Tumors Among Infants in Canada: A Report From CYP‐C

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Central nervous system (CNS) tumors in infants are rare, pose unique clinical challenges, and lack large‐scale evidence‐based data to guide management. This study seeks to describe CNS tumors in Canadian infants and to compare their outcomes with those of older children.
Samuel Sassine, Hallie Coltin, Sylvia Cheng, Lucie Lafay‐Cousin, Vanan Issai Magimairajan, Craig Erker, Stéphanie Vairy, Lynette Bowes, Adam Fleming, Donna Johnston, Sarah McKillop, Roona Sinha, Julie Bennett, Christina Coleman, Laura Wheaton, Shayna Zelcer, Samuele Renzi, Thai Hoa Tran   +17 more
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The meaning of ‘quality’ of homecare for older people: a scoping review

BMC Health Services Research
Background How quality of care in homecare for older people is understood is important, because it influences how quality in homecare is delivered, improved, regulated and measured.
Alex Hall, Vanessa Davey, Lisa McGarrigle, Jayne Astbury, Kimberly Lazo Green, Nisar Ahmed, Oleta Williams, Fiona Beyer, Barbara Hanratty, Debora Price   +9 more
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