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A Quality Improvement Initiative to Standardize Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia Prophylaxis in Pediatric Patients With Solid Tumors

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Background Pediatric patients with extracranial solid tumors (ST) receiving chemotherapy are at an increased risk for Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia (PJP). However, evidence guiding prophylaxis practices in this population is limited. A PJP‐related fatality at our institution highlighted inconsistent prescribing approaches and concerns about
Kriti Kumar, Denise M. Connolly, Ellen Kellington, Elyse Zelunka, Karla Kerrigan, Furqan Shaikh, Paul C. Nathan, Meredith S. Irwin, Sarah Cohen‐Gogo   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessment of Health Care Exposures and Outcomes in Adult Patients With Sepsis and Septic Shock [PDF]

JAMA Network Open, 2020
Current information on the characteristics of patients who develop sepsis may help in identifying opportunities to improve outcomes. Most recent studies of sepsis epidemiology have focused on changes in incidence or have used administrative data sets that provided limited patient-level data.To describe sepsis epidemiology in adults.This retrospective ...
Fay, Katherine, Sapiano, Mathew R. P., Gokhale, Runa, Dantes, Raymund, Thompson, Nicola, Katz, David E., Ray, Susan M., Wilson, Lucy E., Perlmutter, Rebecca, Nadle, Joelle, Godine, Deborah, Frank, Linda, Brousseau, Geoff, Johnston, Helen, Bamberg, Wendy, Dumyati, Ghinwa, Nelson, Deborah, Lynfield, Ruth, DeSilva, Malini, Kainer, Marion, Zhang, Alexia, Ocampo, Valerie, Samper, Monika, Pierce, Rebecca, Irizarry, Lourdes, Sievers, Marla, Maloney, Meghan, Fiore, Anthony, Magill, Shelley S., Epstein, Lauren   +29 more
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Sickle Cell Disease Is an Inherent Risk for Asthma in a Sibling Comparison Study

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Sickle cell disease (SCD) and asthma share a complex relationship. Although estimates vary, asthma prevalence in children with SCD is believed to be comparable to or higher than the general population. Determining whether SCD confers an increased risk for asthma remains challenging due to overlapping symptoms and the ...
Suhei C. Zuleta De Bernardis, Okeleji Olayinka, Mariam Z. Quraishi, Lakshmi V. Srivaths, Deborah L. Brown, Neethu M. Menon, Ricardo A. Mosquera, Ashwin P. Patel, James M. Stark, Aravind Yadav   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Health literacy as a key for effective preventive medicine

Cogent Social Sciences, 2017
Background: A preventive approach in health care aims to anticipate the natural history of the diseases and to define break points where the procedures may act to change future events, on the limit of the patient’s free will.
Paulo Santos, Luísa Sá, Luciana Couto, Alberto Hespanhol   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Laparoscopic bowel resection of deep infiltrating endometriosis. Comparative outcomes of a public teaching hospital and a referral private hospital [PDF]

Acta Cirúrgica Brasileira, 2020
Purpose To compare the operative outcomes of laparoscopic surgical treatment for bowel endometriosis in a public teaching hospital versus in a private referral hospital.
Rogério Serafim Parra, Marley Ribeiro Feitosa, Fernando Passador Valerio, Hugo Parra de Camargo, José Vitor Cabral Zanardi, Omar Feres, José Joaquim Ribeiro da Rocha, Júlio César Rosa-e-Silva   +7 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Occupational therapy for people with psychotic conditions in community settings: a pilot randomized controlled trial [PDF]

, 2008
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effectiveness of a long established intervention, occupational therapy for people with psychotic conditions, and to inform future research designs. DESIGN: A pilot randomized controlled trial.
Andreasen NC, Brintnell ES, Cook S., Corporate Policy Unit SCC., Creek J., Department of Health., Eleni Chambers, Fitzpatrick R., Hayes RL, Julie H Coleman, Marshall M., Sarah Cook, Social Exclusion Unit., World Health Organization.   +13 more
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Psychosocial Outcomes in Patients With Endocrine Tumor Syndromes: A Systematic Review

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction The combination of disease manifestations, the familial burden, and varying penetrance of endocrine tumor syndromes (ETSs) is unique. This review aimed to portray and summarize available data on psychosocial outcomes in patients with ETSs and explore gaps and opportunities for future research and care.
Daniël Zwerus, Floortje Strobbe, Annemarie A. Verrijn Stuart, Hanneke M. van Santen, Gerlof D. Valk, Sasja A. Schepers, Rachel S. van Leeuwaarde   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Venous ulcer healing treated with conventional therapy and adjuvant laser: is there a difference?

Revista Brasileira de Enfermagem, 2021
Objectives: to evaluate the effects of venous ulcer healing in patients after six months of conventional treatment and adjuvant low-power laser therapy.
Viviane Maria Osmarin, Taline Bavaresco, Vania Naomi Hirakata, Amália de Fátima Lucena, Isabel Cristina Echer   +4 more
doaj   +2 more sources

Planned change and service quality in a health care environment: assessing outcomes

Corporate Ownership and Control, 2013
This study assesses the outcomes of a process of planned change undertaken in a health care hospital environment in Lesotho in terms of service quality. A sample of 143 clinical and non-clinical employees from three of the largest regional hospitals within the Ministry of Health in Lesotho was drawn using cluster sampling.
Lisebo Ntsatsi, Sanjana Brijball Parumasur   +1 more
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The Sarcoma-Specific Instrument to Longitudinally Assess Health-Related Outcomes of the Routine Care Cycle

Diagnostics, 2023
Patient-based health related quality of life (HRQoL) measurements are associated with an improvement in quality of care and outcomes. For a complex disease such as sarcoma, there is no disease-specific questionnaire available which covers all clinically relevant dimensions.
Nasian Mosku, Philip Heesen, Salome Christen, Mario F. Scaglioni, Beata Bode, Gabriela Studer, Bruno Fuchs   +6 more
openaire   +3 more sources